The most frequent conflict within human mateships is the conflict between male sexual persistence and female sexual resistance.

Once again, there are special effects, muscles and explosions, boomity boom boom.

Lord Walderhurst gazed at her through the monocle with an air he sometimes had of taking her measure without either unkindliness or particular interest.

Then there is the misery of leaking roofs and oozing walls, which in winter makes some rooms almost uninhabitable.