If she had only manifested some feeling for him, some interest in him, he would have been softened; but, as she did not, by keeping entirely away, show that she thought or cared for him, the pure waters of right feeling, that were gushing up in his mind, were touched with the gall of bitterness.
Rising at length, Ellis began dressing himself, purposely making sufficient noise to reach the ears of his wife.

But she did not make her appearance.
Two doors led from the chamber in which he was.

One communicated with the adjoining room, used as a nursery, and the other with the passage.
After Ellis had dressed and shaved himself, he was, for a short time, undecided whether to enter the nursery, in which were his wife and children, or to pass through the other door, and leave the house without seeing them.
"I shall only get my feelings hurt," said he, as he stood debating the point.

"It's a poor compensation for trouble and the lack of domestic harmony, to get drunk, I know; and I ought to be, and am, ashamed of my own folly.

Oh dear! what is to become of me?
Why will not Cara see the evil consequences of the way she acts upon her husband?
If I go to destruction, and the chances are against me, the sin will mainly rest upon her.