It is small wonder if the wife feels a deep discontent beneath her willing ministrations and misses the devotion of the lover in the perpetual claims of the husband.
But the difficulty is not settled if she persuades him to take a room outside.

He is devoted to his wife and his home, with good reason, for the wife makes the home and he is incapable of making a home.

His new domestic arrangements sink into careless and sordid disorder, and he is conscious of profound discomfort.

His wife soon realises that it is a choice between his return to the home and complete separation.

Most wives never get even as far as this attempt at solution of the difficulty and hide their secret discontent.
This is the situation which to-day is becoming intensified and extended on a vast scale.