For the first time in our marriage, I had decided to spend my holiday alone, without my wife. We had not quarreled . My common sense told me that all habits ---- even good ones ---- should be __21__ from time to time. Doing everything together with my wife had become very much of a habit with me. So I had gone off to Italy __22__ my own to spend three weeks at a hotel at the seaside. I had hoped it would be nice and warm. But actually it was 35℃ in the shade, __23__ enough to roast an ox. I walked about in shorts, my bald head coverd with a handkerchief, sweating and thirsty. And all the time I had to __24__ my wife, who had gone to the mountains of North Wales and was doubtless enjoying  herself very much. Why had I, with my sensitive English skin, gone to Italy of all places? At night, I was kept __25__ by two bands playing  like mad in the bar downstairs.