She felt trapped and helpless, but she forced herself to stand her ground.
"You insult me!" she said, her voice quivering, but striving to be calm.
"Never a bit!" he declared.

"Since I am the truest friend you have!" She drew away from him with a gesture of repulsion.
"You insult me!" she said again.

"I have my husband, and I need no other." He laughed sneeringly, the insinuating banter all gone from his manner.
"You know he is nothing to you," he said.

"He neglects you.

He bullies you.