Women never expected a man to see or understand anything they did not want him to.
One doesn't expect a man to look his best then.
"You are not the sort of son I would expect such a man to have."
He would expect such a man to know as much.
How can you expect a man to live with someone like that?
It wasn't fair of me, I thought, to have expected a man with seven children to risk his life.
Trouble is, you can't expect a man to change himself.
Was he only used, then, to women who expected a man always to do the paying?
Clearly, he didn't expect a man who couldn't see to put up much of a fight.
You can't expect men that old to do all the fighting.