"Why is your position any worse than anybody else's in this wretched business?"

It's a wretched business, I know, but what else can we do?

It is a wretched business being a doctor, thinks Henry.

Should he come out and make a clean breast of the whole wretched business?

"Then we'll have this wretched business over and done with."

I should like to visit again, when this wretched business is over.

I wish to God this whole wretched business was over.

I did not want to be involved in that wretched business at all.

I know no more about the wretched business than you do.

I had to get a grip on myself and put this whole wretched business behind me.