No one ever saw how cruel he could be to her, she whom he cherished so, his "little bird', as he called her. But Pansy heard it almost every night, and by then, it was much too late to say that this was not what she had expected, that he had not told her in advance that she would have to watch after a woman that he had broken. She might at least have been allowed time to prepare herself the shock of seeing her the first time after he had used her, and she realized later, that it had been a test. That it could (and did) get worse.