But he declined to see her, and the two women sat at home, with the baby between them, holding such pleasant conversations as that above narrated.

When such tempests occur in a family, a woman will generally suffer the least during the thick of the tempest.

While the hurricane is at the fiercest, she will be sustained by the most thorough conviction that the right is on her side, that she is aggrieved, that there is nothing for her to acknowledge, and no position that she need surrender.

Whereas her husband will desire a compromise, even amidst the violence of the storm.

But afterwards, when the wind has lulled, but while the heavens around are still all black and murky, then the woman's sufferings begin.