How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"He'd watch that," said the mother bitterly, "he'd take care as you didn't see him. But you may depend upon it, he's seated in the 'Prince o' Wales.' He wouldn't be this late." (1.44)
After asking if Annie had seen her father, Elizabeth outright suggests that Walter would have hidden from his own child in passing to avoid being caught heading off to the pub. Oh no he didn't.
Quote #5
"It'll want mending directly," replied her mother, "and then if your father comes he'll carry on and say there never is a fire when a man comes home sweating from the pit. —A public-house is always warm enough." (1.53)
Elizabeth imagines that her husband is brazen enough to miss dinner without notice to go boozing and then come home complaining that the house is cold (and use that as an excuse for why he's always at the nice warm pub).
Quote #6
"It is a scandalous thing as a man can't even come home to his dinner! If it's crozzled up to a cinder I don't see why I should care. Past his very door he goes to get to a public-house, and here I sit with his dinner waiting for him—." (1.59)
Justifiably, Elizabeth is honked off at the notion that her husband would not let anyone know he wasn't coming home, causing the food she had prepared to be wasted. You definitely get a sense that she's been through this several times before.