But the Don could not interfere. How expect a man to discharge his husbandly duties to a wife whose family he feared?

但老头子也无法插手，一个男人如果怕老婆的娘家，怎么能指望他去履行他作丈夫的职责呢？

Never in a million years would I become that shrewish fishwife shrieking from the doorway because my husband had spent the night carousing with the boys in avoidance of his husbandly duties.

我万万没想过自己会变成那种因丈夫不守本分整晚在外与友人酣饮而在门口放声大骂的泼妇。