Naturally enough she defended herself with such weapons as a sense of cruel injustice supplied.

More than once the two all but parted.

It did not come to an actual rupture, chiefly because Yule could not do without his wife; her tendance had become indispensable.

And then there was the child to consider.
From the first it was Yule's dread lest Marian should be infected with her mother's faults of speech and behaviour.

He would scarcely permit his wife to talk to the child.