He had promised that her mother should live with them; but he felt indignantly that it was an act of disloyalty for her to be right at his expense.

She ought to have given in, and she ought to have given in gracefully, there was no question of that.

When a woman loved a man as much as she loved him, it was unreasonable of her to let these innumerable little points of fact come between them; it was ungenerous of her to cling so stubbornly to her advantage.

Her very quietness--that look of gentle obstinacy which refused either to fight back or to surrender--irritated him almost to desperation.

His temper, always inflammable, suddenly burst out, and he felt that he wanted to shake her.