Little did he do to make me comfortable.

Man needs woman's refining care to keep him from becoming bachelorized.

They had seen Poland, and that was the sort of slovenly, slapdash place they were used to, but once across the German frontier they found everything—crops, roads, buildings—uncannily different.

They hustle and scheme without moral compass, trying to survive by making accommodations that are at best temporary, more often delusional.