make every chore a penance.

“Why did you step out of my life, you minx? Your new hairdo is fascinating and cosmopolitan.”

“It’s not your fate to be well treated,” Ignatius cried. “You’re an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.”

weltanschauung

I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it.”

“I am the avenging sword of taste and decency,”

“I do not know why you are in here now, as a matter of fact, or why you have this sudden compulsion to invade my sanctuary. I doubt whether it will ever be the same after the trauma of this intrusion by an alien spirit.”

enervated

“He is small and elusive.” Ignatius’ voice was cunning. “He is given to many disguises. He is a veritable will-o’-the-wisp, scurrying here and there in his never-ending search for marauders. For a while he chose the covert of a bathroom but now is out on the streets where he remains at my beck and call every minute.”