To her surprise he did not discover her retreat; she heard him moving about the passages, stumbling here and there, then he seemed to return to his bedroom.

She wrapped herself in a counterpane, and sat in a chair till it was full morning.
He was absent for a week after that.

Of course his polling at the election had been ridiculously small compared with that of the other candidates.

When he returned he went about his ordinary occupations; he was seemingly not in his usual health, but the constant irritableness had left him.

Adela tried to bear herself as though nothing unwonted had come to pass, but Mutimer scarcely spoke when at home; if he addressed her it was in a quick, off-hand way, and without looking at her.