Love never flew out of the window for he was never in the house.

They did not talk to each other much.

Beenah did the housework unaided by the sprig of a servant who was engaged to satisfy the neighbors.

In his enforced idleness Mendel fell back on his religion, almost a profession in itself.

They were a silent couple.
At sixty there is not much chance of a forty year old silence being broken on this side of the grave.