She should lead him a dog’s life, and never swallow her bile.

With wife or husband, you should never swallow your bile. It makes you go all wrong inside. Always let fly, tooth and nail, and never repent, no matter what sort of a figure you make.

We have a vice of love, of softness and sweetness and smarminess and intimacy and promiscuous kindness and all that sort of thing. We think it’s so awfully nice of us to be like that, in ourselves. But in our wives or our husbands it gets on our nerves horribly. Yet we think it oughtn’t to, so we swallow our spleen.

We shouldn’t. When Jesus said “if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out,” he was beside the point. The eye doesn’t really offend us. We are rather fond of our own squint eye. It only offends the person who cares for us. And it’s