No half-contemptuous question would elicit confidence from him, so that she had come to think it a great honor if by any chance he did drop her a hint as to the mood that his day's work had occasioned.

But for the most part he was unaffected by such matters.

Newspaper attacks and business successes did not seem to reach the area where he suffered or rejoiced.

They were to be dealt with or ignored, but they could neither shadow or elate him.
So that not only egotism, but experience, bade her look to her own conduct for some explanation of the chilly little mist that had been between them for twenty-four hours.
As soon as the drawing-room door closed behind her she ran up-stairs like a girl.

There was no light in his study, and she went on into his bedroom.