That's enough for me.' "Davidson's home after this was like a silent, frozen hell for him.

A stupid woman with a sense of grievance is worse than an unchained devil.
He sent the boy to the White Fathers in Malacca.

This was not a very expensive sort of education, but she could not forgive him for not casting the offensive child away utterly.

She worked up her sense of her wifely wrongs and of her injured purity to such a pitch that one day, when poor Davidson was pleading with her to be reasonable and not to make an impossible existence for them both, she turned on him in a chill passion and told him that his very sight was odious to her.
"Davidson, with his scrupulous delicacy of feeling, was not the man to assert his rights over a woman who could not bear the sight of him.

He bowed his head; and shortly afterwards arranged for her to go back to her parents.