Ephraim was good.

If he could only know how good Angel was, he would not have asked her to return.

All thought of deserting the new cause now was gone; the blood that had trickled from Smith's bruised head, the danger that menaced Halsey, sustained her.

She wrote to Ephraim to that effect.
Some days after, when driving past Biery's hotel from a meeting he had been holding in the town of Geneva, Joseph Smith entered and laid before Susannah books for the cultivation of her mind--a Latin grammar and exercise book like his own, a Universal History, and a primer of Natural Philosophy.

He told her that in two weeks, when she had mastered their contents, he would bring her others.