We get in each other's way.

And then it would ease you; it would be less expense--" "When I complain of having to support my children, it will be time to speak of that--" "But you have complained," hotly interrupted the son; "you have reproached us many a time for what we cost you for clothes and food--" "Yes, when you have shown yourselves ungrateful for them, as you do to-night--" "Ungrateful! For what should we be grateful?
That you do your bare duty of feeding and clothing us, and even for that, expect, in my case at all events, that I shall prove so much business capital invested for the future.

Was it we who asked to come into the world?
Did you consult us, or did you beget us for anything but your own selfish pleasure, without a thought--" Henry got no further.

His father had grown white, and, with terrible anger pointed to the door.
"Leave the room, sir," he said, "and to-morrow leave my house for ever." The son was not cowed.

He stood with an unflinching defiance before the father, in whom he forgot the father and saw only the tyrant.