He says men get coarse and violent in spite of themselves, just as women do when everything goes wrong in the house--when the flies are thick, and the fire won't burn, and the irons stick to the clothes.
You see, you both suffer.

Don't lay up this fit of temper against Sim--will you ?" The wife lifted her head and looked away.

Her face was full of hopeless weariness.
"It ain't this once.

It ain't that 't all.

It's having no let-up.