I had been so long used to an European climate that at first I felt the scorching West India sun very painful […] .

His conversion to Christianity

The faint words trailed off to the soft twock of wood on leather. Philp squinted up at the slate gray clouds scudding in from the Bay. Best we hurry if we mean to finish the last hole without a soaking, for there promises to be a spot of rain […]

In the most radical cases, a SAHM might suffer from all these maladies at once, and her life becomes a Sisyphean struggle to maintain body, home, children and community work, according to unimpeachable standards.