I pictured her a contented wife with a babe or two!

Vera is a contented wife and mother in the East End of London, circa 1950, who cleans houses to supplement the family income.

She'll be a contented wife and mother.

A contented wife is more likely to achieve that result, or so I am told.

And I'm sure a man of your experience knows that contented wives do not jump into the hay with the local tennis-club pro at the drop of a racket.

I could have been a contented wife ... but the Lord saw fit to take him.

Charity Walton, a sociologist and mother of four, seems to be a contented wife until she leaps into a harrowing affair with a two- (and sometimes three-) timing colleague.

But God willing, she'll be a contented wife with a son on her knee long before Rhisiart goes to his fathers.

Every contented wife owns a similar nightgown, as much a symbol of emotional security as a costume for sleeping.

Yet even four years as a contented wife had not made her feelings about Barney Sullivan less bitter.