Something is the matter.

Oh, I wish I had not done that!" While such thoughts were passing through the mind of Mrs.Ellis, her husband came home.

She met him with an affectionate manner, which he returned.

But there was a cloud on his brow that even her smile could not drive away.

Even as she met him, words of confession were on the tongue of Mrs.Ellis, but she shrank from giving them utterance.
After tea she resolved to speak.