He did not wait for our inquiries, but immediately explained the cause.

Two days before a packet had arrived from Hamburgh, by which he had flattered himself with the expectation of receiving letters, but no letters had arrived.

I never saw him so much subdued by an untoward event.

His thoughts were employed in accounting for the silence of his friends.
He was seized with the torments of jealousy, and suspected nothing less than the infidelity of her to whom he had devoted his heart.

The silence must have been concerted.