But he hadn't a word to say this morning.

Something has gone wrong between him and his wife.

I wonder what it can be ?" But Mr.and Mrs.Craig, who were not of the gossiping kind, were disposed to keep their own counsel.
"I thought I heard some unusual noises in their room last night after they came home from the party," said a lady whose chamber was opposite theirs across the hall.

"They seemed to be moving furniture about, and twice I thought I heard a scream.

But then the storm was so high that one might easily have mistaken a wail of the wind for a cry of distress." "A cry of distress! You didn't imagine that the general was maltreating his wife ?" "I intimated nothing of the kind," returned the lady.
"But what made you think about a cry of distress ?" "I merely said that I thought I heard a scream; and if you had been awake from twelve to one or two o'clock this morning, you would have thought the air full of wailing voices.