He had expected to disturb her soul to its profoundest depths; he had expected that they would sit up half the night discussing the situation.

And lo!--"I should forget it," indulgently! And a mild continuance of darning! He had to think, and think hard.
_Tears_ "Henry," she called out the next morning, as he disappeared up the stairs.

"What _are_ you doing up there ?" She had behaved exactly as if nothing had happened; and she was one of those women whose prudent policy it is to let their men alone even to the furthest limit of patience; but she had nerves, too, and they were being affected.

For three days Henry had really been too mysterious! He stopped, and put his head over the banisters, and in a queer, moved voice answered: "Come and see." Sooner or later she must see.

Sooner or later the already distended situation must get more and more distended until it burst with a loud report.