I have another appointment for the afternoon." It was a superfluous lie for so silent a man.
"He doesn't like to be seen with us," Beenah Hyams thought.

But she was silent.
"He has never forgiven my putting him to the fancy goods," thought Mendel Hyams when told.

But he was silent.
It was of no good discussing it with his wife.

Those two had rather halved their joys than their sorrows.

They had been married forty years and had never had an intimate moment.