This led Grotius' wife to conceive the idea of releasing him; and she persuaded him one day to deposit himself in the chest instead of the outgoing books.

When the two soldiers appointed to remove it took it up, they felt it to be considerably heavier than usual, and one of them asked, jestingly, "Have we got the Arminian himself here ?" to which the ready-witted wife replied, "Yes, perhaps some Arminian books." The chest reached Gorcum in safety; the captive was released; and Grotius escaped across the frontier into Brabant, and afterwards into France, where he was rejoined by his wife.
Trial and suffering are the tests of married life.

They bring out the real character, and often tend to produce the closest union.

They may even be the spring of the purest happiness.

Uninterrupted joy, like uninterrupted success, is not good for either man or woman.