"He might as well face that fact and have done with it.

Personally I've lost patience with him.

He acts like a sulky kid." Later Jan improvised a "scarlet fever" placard which Kenny in the course of time found nailed upon his door.

He read with amazed and offended eyes that he was temporarily in temper quarantine.
It soon became apparent that life without Brian was maintaining even more than its usual average of petty complication.

The problem of small change Kenny found a torment.