My answer was shaped accordingly.
"I suspected that; but in the discussions which I have had I have always been placed at a disadvantage, not being able to adduce any definite facts in support of my opinion." "You may congratulate yourself on being unable to find any in your own experience.

A mother-in-law living in the house does not conduce to domestic harmony.

I don't know how it is in your country, but so it is with us." I hastened to assure him that this was not a peculiarity of Russia.
"I know it only too well," he continued.

"My mother-in-law lived with me for some years, and I was obliged at last to insist on her going to another son-in-law." "Rather selfish conduct towards your brother-in-law," I said to myself, and then added audibly, "I hope you have thus solved the difficulty satisfactorily." "Not at all.

Things are worse now than they were.