Mrs. Baines was a real bitch.

I've never been married and, at 66 years of age, it's far too late for me to do so now. But my lifelong observations of married couples has taught me that most of them end up married by pretending to be someone and something they're not, in the belief that if they were to show their prospective partners their true selves and who they really were, their prospective partner would no longer want to know them. Perhaps, just as Baines invented a fake persona to impress Phillipe, he also invented one to impress Mrs Baines, who resented him after they were married when she found out that he wasn't the man he'd led her to believe he was. He should never have married her in the first place, as they were totally unsuited for each other. In Julie, Baines had found a woman who knew who he really was and loved him for what he really was.