The passions they had shared even in her marrying Evans was soiled in mud over some age obligations, she finds life very uncomfortable to cope with a man she did not love, and her expectations as a wife were null and useless. Evans adapted to her torments and she was ready for she had made up her mind in several different ways to die in her soul. She became a prisoner in her own house and Evans delights in making her his bedtime slave. Melanie would have to accept it as fate or fight her way out of the situation.