it, and it is therefore your fault if I--"

"What is it you propose to do? How are you going to get this
absurd paltry sum you are making such a fuss about?"

"That I decline to tell you--"

"Don't you dare to do needlework or anything that would make me
look foolish. I forbid it!"

"And I scorn your forbidding! Make you look foolish, indeed!
When you make me look foolish every day of my life, because I
can't do as other women do--can't have what other wives have--"

"Now, now, Tiger, don't make such a row over nothing--let's talk
it over seriously--"

"There's nothing to talk over. I've asked you time and again for
an allowance of money--real money, not charge accounts--and you
always refuse--"

"And always shall, if you are so ugly about it! Why must you fly
into a rage over it? Your temper is--"

"My temper is roused by your cruelty--"

"Cruelty!"

"Yes; it's as much cruelty as if you struck me! You deny me my
heart's dearest wish for no reason whatever--"