The relationship shared by Mammachi and Pappachi is like the one where there's no visible intimacy between the two but also they cannot live without each other. Having a difference of 17 years in age, both of them have grown into each other. Although there are pieces of evidence in the chapter that show the brutal ways in which Pappachi would treat Mammachi. Despite all these factors, Mammachi cried bitterly not because she loved him but because she was habitual of his presence. She was attached to him that she missed his presence in the way he used to supervise the pickle factory or simply in the way he used to sit all by himself. The beating was overlooked by all this.