Of course there may come troubles.

The tiles may fall on your head, you know, as you walk through the streets.

As far as I can see, women go straight enough nineteen times out of twenty.
But they don't like being,--what I call looked after." "And did I look after my wife more than I ought ?" "I don't mean that; but if I were married,--which I never shall be, for I shall never attain to the respectability of a fixed income,--I fancy I shouldn't look after my wife at all.

It seems to me that women hate to be told about their duties." "But if you saw your wife, quite innocently, falling into an improper intimacy,--taking up with people she ought not to know,--doing that in ignorance, which could not but compromise yourself;--wouldn't you speak a word then ?" "Oh! I might just say, in an off-hand way, that Jones was a rascal, or a liar, or a fool, or anything of that sort.

But I would never caution her against Jones.