The Narrator's Wife Timeline and Summary

The woman and the man get married.
She brings lots of pets into the home, including Pluto.
The man begins physically and verbally abusing her.
She escapes the burning and house.
When the second cat follows the man home, she treats it lovingly.
When she sees the cat is missing an eye, she loves it even more.
She shows the man, several times, that the white fur on the cat's chest is in the shape of a gallows.
The man continues to abuse her.
One day she goes down to the cellar with him.
When he tries to kill the cat with an axe, she stops him.
He axes her in the head, and she dies and her body is concealed in the cellar wall.
When the police investigate, the body is discovered.