this wide-chapped rascal

The divide in who does what when it comes to housework persists because of our gendered expectation for women to perform emotional labor. We are the ones who decide whether to do a task ourselves or to delegate it to someone else, and doing physical labor is often the easier road.

As they retraced their benettled footsteps, Mr Truscott's silent rage was such as to obscure even […]

He would introduce her to the wonders of eros; she would bloom under his expert tutelage.