"After all, you can always vary the monotony by running up to town or going abroad, can't you ?" "I don't think Roger cares much for travelling about.

He is extremely attached to his home.

We have always made everything so easy and comfortable for him here, you see," responded Lady Gertrude, with a certain significance.
Nan surmised she was intended to gather that it would be her duty to make everything "so easy and comfortable" for him in the future! She almost smiled.

Most of the married men she knew were kept busy seeing that everything was made easy and comfortable for their wives.
"Still," continued Lady Gertrude, "there could be no objection to your making an occasional trip to London." She had a dry, decisive method of speech which gave one the impression she was well accustomed to laying down the law--and that her laws were expected to remain unbroken.

The "occasional trip to London" sounded bleakly in Nan's ears.