Things broke so suddenly you didn't know where you were. She could work herself into a fury about simply nothing. She was terrible, not an ounce of reason. You might as well talk to a sieve as that woman when she got going. Darned if he'd spend his life humoring her! Well , what to do now? He would take back the rope and exchange it for something else. Things out or get rid of them. They just lay and rotted around.