Anybody will do all he can for a sick partner, when they're away out in the wilds.

I haven't a doubt Dick would have done the very same thing, when it comes to that." Josephine got up from the table then, and went haughtily into her own room.
Mrs.Kate retired quite as haughtily into the kitchen, and there was a distinct coolness between them for the rest of the day, and a part of the next.

The chill of it affected Ford sufficiently to keep him away from the house as much as possible, and unusually silent and unlike himself when he was with the men.
But, unlike many another, he did not know that his recurrent dissatisfaction with life was directly traceable to the apparent intimacy between Josephine and Dick.

Ford, if he had tried to put his gloomy unrest into words, would have transposed his trouble and would have mistaken effect for cause.

In other words, he would have ignored Josephine and Dick entirely, and would have said that he wanted whisky--and wanted it as the damned are said to want water..