It is true that Mrs Easy had long found out that she did not have her own way long; but she was of an easy disposition, and as, in nine cases out of ten, it was of very little consequence how things were done, she was quite satisfied with his submission during the heat of the argument.

Mr Easy had admitted that she was right, and if like all men he would do wrong, why, what could a poor woman do?
With a lady of such a quiet disposition, it is easy to imagine that the domestic felicity of Mr Easy was not easily disturbed.

But, as people have observed before, there is a mutability in human affairs.

It was at the finale of the eleventh year of their marriage that Mrs Easy at first complained that she could not enjoy her breakfast.

Mrs Easy had her own suspicions, everybody else considered it past doubt, all except Mr Easy; he little "thought, good easy man, that his greatness was ripening"; he had decided that to have an heir was no Easy task, and it never came into his calculations, that there could be a change in his wife's figure.