Miss Batchelor was clever, and he hated clever women.

So he married Molly Wilcox.

Molly Wilcox was nineteen; she had had no education, and, what was infinitely worse, she had a vulgar mother.

And as Mr.Wilcox might be considered a negligible quantity, the chances were that she would take after her mother.
The mystery was how Tyson ever came to know these people.

Mr.Wilcox was a student and an invalid; moreover, he was excessively morose.