She broke him of the habit of eating with his knife, she caused him to substitute bottled beer in the place of steam beer, and she induced him to take off his hat to Miss Baker, to Heise's wife, and to the other women of his acquaintance.

McTeague no longer spent an evening at Frenna's.

Instead of this he brought a couple of bottles of beer up to the rooms and shared it with Trina.

In his "Parlors" he was no longer gruff and indifferent to his female patients; he arrived at that stage where he could work and talk to them at the same time; he even accompanied them to the door, and held it open for them when the operation was finished, bowing them out with great nods of his huge square-cut head.
Besides all this, he began to observe the broader, larger interests of life, interests that affected him not as an individual, but as a member of a class, a profession, or a political party.

He read the papers, he subscribed to a dental magazine; on Easter, Christmas, and New Year's he went to church with Trina.