She was a plucky little woman and very intelligent when once her eyes were opened.

She recognized the fact that her suffering was resistance to her husband's irritable selfishness, and she stopped resisting.
It was a long and hard struggle of days, weeks, and months, but it brought a very happy reward.

When a man is irritable and ugly, and his wife offers no resistance either in anger or suffering, the irritability and ugliness react upon himself, and if there is something better in him he begins to perceive the irritability in its true colors.

That is what happened to this man.

As his wife stopped demanding he began to give.