She is jealous of his thoughts, his words, his friends, even his business....

But the wife who has learned to be the clinging vine when her husband wishes her to cling, and to be the sturdy oak when clinging vines would be tiresome, has solved a tremendous problem." At this point Billy dropped the paper.

She flung it down, indeed, a bit angrily.

There were still a few more words in the criticism, mostly the critic's own opinion of the book; but Billy did not care for this.

She had read quite enough--boo much, in fact.