"I should take your heavy fur coat." Philippa stared at her companion.
"You don't seem much upset, Helen!" "I think," Helen declared, looking up, "that nothing that has ever happened to me in my life has made me more unhappy, but I can see that you have reasoned it all out, and there is not a single argument I could use which you haven't already discounted.

It is your life, Philippa, not mine." "Since you are so philosophical," Philippa observed, "let me ask you--should you do what I am going to do, if you were in my place ?" "I should not," was the firm reply.
Philippa laughed heartily.
"Oh, I know what you are going to say!" Helen continued quickly.

"You'll tell me, won't you, that I am not temperamental.

I think in your heart you rather despise my absolute fidelity to Richard.

You would call it cowlike, or something of that sort.