But if the fogs are very bad--' 'And you would seriously advise us to give up the house ?' 'My dear fellow, how can you hesitate?
Your wife is quite right; there's not one good word to be said for the ordinary life of an English household.

Flee from it! Live anywhere and anyhow, but don't keep house in England.

Wherever I go, it's the same cry: domestic life is played out.

There isn't a servant to be had--unless you're a Duke and breed them on your own estate.

All ordinary housekeepers are at the mercy of the filth and insolence of a draggle-tailed, novelette-reading feminine democracy.