Only he was no longer whole-hearted and simple about it, as he had been when Phoebe married him, as she was still.
He put on his studio coat and sat down to his work again, in a very tender, repentant mood.

What on earth had possessed him to make that answer to Lord Findon--to let him and those other fellows take him for unmarried?
He protested, in excuse, that Westmoreland folk are 'close,' and don't like talking about their own affairs.

He came of a secretive, suspicious stock; and had no mind at any time to part with unnecessary facts about himself.

As talkative as you please about art and opinion; of his own concerns not a word! London had made him all the more cautious and reticent.

No one knew anything about him except as an artist.