Wife

Ten years into a marriage the wife is disappointed by the husbands lack of financial success meaning she has to work and cant treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and meanspirited she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable In turn he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant Neither is particularly happy not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers The husband is easily seduced by an excolleague a widow with a small child who needs some security and considers leaving his wife