No man likes to be held up at the end of a threatened scene and made to give an account of himself....

Before a woman has learned to cultivate a comfortable indifference to her husband's comings and goings, she is apt to be tyrannical and exacting." "'Comfortable indifference,' indeed!" stormed Billy to herself.

"As if I ever could be comfortably indifferent to anything Bertram did!" She dropped the paper; but there were still other quotations from the book there, she knew; and in a moment she was back at the table reading them.
"No man, however fondly he loves his wife, likes to feel that she is everlastingly peering into the recesses of his mind, and weighing his every act to find out if he does or does not love her to-day as well as he did yesterday at this time....

Then, when spontaneity is dead, she is the chief mourner at its funeral....

A few couples never leave the Garden of Eden.