She was sure to go on talking for two or three minutes and then
subside in despair. A woman will not talk to a stone wall. Nor will
she wantonly allow an argument to die while there remains the
slightest chance of its survival. Given the same situation, a man
would get up and leave his wife sitting there with her fingers in her
ears; and, as he bolted from the room in high dudgeon, he would be
mean enough to call attention to her pig-headedness. In most cases, a
woman is content to listen to a silly argument rather than to leave
the room just because her husband elects to be childish about a
perfectly simple elucidation of the truth.
Mrs. Blithers had lived with Mr. Blithers, more or less, for twenty-
five years and she knew him like a book. He was a forceful person who
would have his own way, even though he had to put his fingers in his
ears to get it. At one period of their joint connubial agreement,
when he had succeeded in accumulating a pitiful hoard amounting to
but little more than ten millions of dollars, she concluded to live
abroad for the purpose of educating their daughter, allowing him in
the meantime to increase his fortune to something like fifty millions
without having to worry about household affairs.
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