The carpet, and almost everything in the room, was green, except the small white enamelled piano.

Today she felt that she wanted to use all her influence to get Aylmer to confide in her more.

Perhaps he was slipping away from her--she would have been only a little incident in his existence--while she certainly wished it to go on.

Seeing this, perhaps it oughtn't to go on.

She wondered if he would laugh or be serious today...