They terrify me.

I would suffer anything rather than have a fresh scene.

And I can't get her to do anything for me.
She has no time for me.

And, yet she thinks she takes the greatest possible care of me, and devotes the whole day to me.

Why, sometimes I never see her for hours together." "Well, at least she does not quarrel with every one, as my mother does," said a Polish gentleman, M.Lichinsky.