She admitted to herself he was right.
'It's entirely a matter of principle,' she said after another reassuring look at the envelope.

'It's only a matter of principle, dear, I'm twenty-eight years old, we've been married eight years; you leave the housekeeping, the whole ordering of the children's education, and heaps of other quite important things, entirely to me; in fact, you lead almost the life of a schoolboy, without any of the tiresome part, and with freedom, going to school in the day and amusing yourself in the evening, while everything disagreeable and important is thought of and seen to for you.

You only have the children with you when they amuse you.

I have all the responsibility; I have to be patient, thoughtful--in fact, you leave things to me more than most men do to their wives, Bruce.

You won't be bothered even to look at an account--to do a thing.