Question

Now why should that man have fainted but he did and right across my path by the wall , so that i had to creep over him every time

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Answer:

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! ... "That man" has made his wife a prisoner in a summer home, refusing her requests because she must exert "self-control." "That man" has trapped his wife in her insanity.