There had been no further conversation between her and her husband.

She talked a little with 'Arry, in her usual gentle way, then asked to be allowed to say goodnight.

'Arry at the same time took his leave, having been privately bidden to do so by his sister.

He was glad enough to get away; in the drawing-room his limbs soon began to ache, from inability to sit at his ease.
Then Alice withdrew, and the men were left alone.
Adela did not go to bed.

She suffered from the closeness of the evening and sat by her open windows, trying to read a chapter in the New Testament.