When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;
David ... killed two hundred Philistines ... and brought their foreskins ... in full number to the king"  (1 Samuel 18:27).  One cannot help wondering what emotion must have swept over Saul when he received the filthy garbage which was, in a sense, his sale price for the precious Michal.