How Much Would You Forgive

Am I missing it - where does it say that he's going to do any more than just forgive her?

oops, not in this version, which is from the Melbourne paper.
From the CanWest News Service, which is where I originally read it (it's a little juicier too):

MELBOURNE, Australia — A Vancouver woman who tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Dorothy Marie Skura, 37, broke down in tears when the sentence was read in an Australian court and silently uttered a message to her grim-faced husband, with whom she is now reconciled.
“I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry,” Skura mouthed from the dock.
She pleaded guilty to one charge of incitement to murder and must serve a minimum of 41/2 years before being eligible for parole.
Prosecutors in Victoria State Supreme Court said Skura had arranged to pay the equivalent of $25,000 Cdn to a man she thought was a hired assassin to kill her 51-year-old husband, Gerry Skura of Winnipeg.
The couple was living in Australia after Gerry Skura was transferred to Australia by James Richardson International, a Canadian-based grain company.
Police said Skura deposited $2,000 in two payments into a bank account and offered a further $23,000 when the murder was committed.
Police told court that a photograph of the intended victim was supplied to a prospective killer. However, the would-be hit man turned out to be an undercover police officer.
Court heard that Skura told the police officer: “I’m a cold-hearted bitch and I want his money, his pension and to go back to Canada.” The conversations were recorded.
Senior Const. Simon Black has said his officers launched a sting after they found out Skura had asked several men to murder her husband.
Skura stood to gain up to $250,000 from her husband’s life insurance and death benefits, and wanted to return to Vancouver and open a pub, a Melbourne newspaper reported in May.
Supreme Court Justice Bernard Bongiorno said Tuesday that up to the very end of her discussions with the undercover officer, Skura was “adamant that she had thought the matter through and wanted the murder carried out.”
After Skura’s arrest in March, her husband told police he suspected he got food poisoning from his wife’s “natural remedies” in 2002. On another occasion, traces of sleeping pills were found in his blood when he was taken to hospital for a suspected stroke, and last December a fire broke out in his bedroom while he was home alone.
His wife was not charged for any of the incidents.
Gerry Skura, who said he wanted his wife back, told the court in May that he never believed she would go through with her plans and still had no concerns for his safety.
“She made some wrong decisions, got in with the wrong crowd. But that’s in the past,” he told the court.
The court heard that she had been physically and sexually abused as a child, had alcohol problems and had personality disorders.

I can forgive a lot of things (the worst of which so far has been my best friend fucking my boyfriend, so not that bad, really), but if you send a hitman after me, I think I might hold a grudge.

dude, at least I made sure he was a bumbling hitman.

woodchipper time!

You're darned tootin'!

Anyway, I would not be as forgiving as that man. I would get the hell away from that relationship and start up one where I knew the partner liked me enough to where they wouldn't actually go out and try to have me killed. But that's just me.

Maybe this guy's just saying he'll take her back so that she won't hire somebody to knock him out while she's in jail.