Most husbands reach the place in a marital relationship at which they must either swear out loud, go to Joe's Bar and Grill, or retreat ostrich-fashion into a love nest. In the case of Addison Stubbs, none of these outlets was feasible. He had a shockingly poor memory for swear words; he would have felt as diffident as a giraffe at Joe's Bar and Grill; and Hilaria, his wife, had the run of his only love nest, a work bench in the cellar. For these reasons, perhaps it was inevitable that he should have crawled under the porch to hide.

-- from The Husband Who Ran Away (1948)