 Her remaining sanity was on the line and she began to display suicidal behavior that involved talk of pistols and chloroform, as recorded in her husband's diaries.By early summer the couple had decided that a divorce was necessary for her to regain sanity without affecting the lives of her husband and daughter.During the summer of 1888, Charlotte and Katharine spent time in Bristol, Rhode Island, away from Walter, and it was there where her depression began to lift.