You took a job.

What was it ?" Ethel told of Greesheimer, and then of coming back to Joe, of his poverty and of her nursing Susette, of dreaming of children, of falling in love, of marriage and the birth of her boy.
"But all the time Amy had been there.

Do you understand! Like a spirit, I mean! She had Joe first! She had shaped him!" "Yes--" "And so when he loved me even more, I do believe, than he ever loved her--still he did the thing she would have wanted.

Amy had taught him to show his love by loading money on his wife.

And that was what started everything wrong.