"I'd like to know why it is that my life and my children's lives have to be sacrificed to him ?" "How are they 'sacrificed' to him ?" "Because you keep on working for him! Because you keep on letting him hand out whatever miserable little pittance he chooses to give you; that's why! It's as if he were some horrible old Juggernaut and I had to see my children's own father throwing them under the wheels to keep him satisfied." "I won't hear any more such stuff!" Lifting his paper, Adams affected to read.
"You'd better listen to me," she admonished him.

"You might be sorry you didn't, in case he ever tried to set foot in my house again! I might tell him to his face what I think of him." At this, Adams slapped the newspaper down upon his knee.

"Oh, the devil! What's it matter what you think of him ?" "It had better matter to you!" she cried.

"Do you suppose I'm going to submit forever to him and his family and what they're doing to my child ?" "What are he and his family doing to 'your child ?'" Mrs.Adams came out with it.

"That snippy little Henrietta Lamb has always snubbed Alice every time she's ever had the chance.