"An' I'm glad there's nothing left of her." Which disturbed Annie inwardly, although she could say nothing.

He seemed to hate the doll so intensely, because he had broken it.
All the children, but particularly Paul, were peculiarly against their father, along with their mother.

Morel continued to bully and to drink.
He had periods, months at a time, when he made the whole life of the family a misery.

Paul never forgot coming home from the Band of Hope one Monday evening and finding his mother with her eye swollen and discoloured, his father standing on the hearthrug, feet astride, his head down, and William, just home from work, glaring at his father.
There was a silence as the young children entered, but none of the elders looked round.
William was white to the lips, and his fists were clenched.

He waited until the children were silent, watching with children's rage and hate; then he said: "You coward, you daren't do it when I was in." But Morel's blood was up.