His wife disregarded this.
“And don’t you think it’s a foolish extravagance to go on paying the rent of an entire house, in order to spend a few hours a day in one very uncomfortable room of it?”
The Professor’s dark skin reddened, and the ends of his formidable eyebrows ascended toward his black hair.
“It’s almost my only extravagance,” he muttered fiercely.
“How irritable and unreasonable he is becoming!” his wife reflected, as she heard him putting on his overshoes in the hall.