I got angry, and made her life a burden to her.

I must have things done exactly as I wished; if not, there was no end to my fault-finding.

And yet, if you'll believe it, I loved my wife as truly as man ever did.

Jenny couldn't understand that--and how should she?
At last she began to deceive me in all sorts of little things; she got into debt with shop-people, she showed me false accounts, she pawned things without my knowing.

Last of all, she began to drink.