The day after he married her, he delivered a scolding to his wife: "No sooner do you arrive here than you start wasting our money." But the scolding was less from him than from his aunt, who had ordered him to deliver it. His wife apologized to him, of course, and to the aunt as well—with the potted jonquils she had bought for him in the room.
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke, "The Life Of A Stupid Man", 1927.