TL

it sounds like he is saying that unless she is in physical danger, a wife should be willing to suffer abusive treatment including abusive/unkind language from her husband for an inspecified amount of time. He is definitely IMO implying a kind of lordship of the husband to which the wife must approach differences with a bended knee kind of approach.

His laughter is indeed troubling. This follow’s Ware and Pattersons attitude that the reputation of the husband is more important than the suffering of the wife.