Opening it, he bowed her through with a ceremony conspicuous even in their ceremonious relations.
But Rachel nursed her contrariety, even to the extent of a perverse satisfaction at her encounter with the judge, and a fierce enjoyment of its still possible consequences.

The mood was neither logical nor generous, and yet it was human enough in the actual circumstances of the case.

At last she had made him feel! It had taken her the better part of a year, but here at last was something that he really felt.

And it had to do with her; it was impending disaster to herself which had brought about this change in her husband; she knew him too well not to acquit him of purely selfish solicitude for his own good name and comfortable status in a society for which he had no real regard.

There was never a man less dependent upon the good opinion of other men.