During the honey-moon there were only a few outbursts, and after we came to the Grange she repressed herself for about a fortnight; but finally she broke out in the most furious fashion; and I began to find that she had a devil of a temper, and in her fits she was but a small remove from a mad woman.

You see she had been humored and indulged and petted and coddled by her old fool of a father, until at last she had grown to be the most whimsical, conceited, tetchy, suspicious, imperious, domineering, selfish, cruel, hard-hearted, and malignant young vixen that ever lived; yet this evil nature dwelt in a form as beautiful as ever lived.

She was a beautiful demon, and I soon found it out.
"It began out of nothing at all.

I had been her adoring slave for three weeks, until I began to be conscious of the most abominable tyranny on her part.

I began to resist this, and we were on the verge of an outbreak when we arrived at the Grange.