GRANDMOTHER
You thought yourself above him, Lizzie, an' you know he's not the man to stand it.
MRS. HOLROYD
No, he's run away from it.
GRANDMOTHER (venomously)
And what man wouldn't leave a woman that allowed him to live on sufferance in the house with her, when he was bringing the money home?
MRS. HOLROYD
"Sufferance!"—Yes, there's been a lot of letting him live on "sufferance" in the house with me. It is I who have lived on sufferance, for his service and pleasure. No, what he wanted was the drink and the public house company, and because he couldn't get them here, he went out for them. That's all.
GRANDMOTHER