It did not seem to be possible.

Now I must ask you a question.

You have some other motive, have you not, for choosing to come away with me?
It is not only because you love me better than any one else in the world, as I do you, and therefore that we belong to one another and it is right and good that we should spend our lives in one another's company?
There is something else, is there not, at the root of your determination?
Some ally ?" It was a strange moment for Philippa.

Nothing had altered within her, and yet a wonderful pity was glowing in her heart, tearing at her emotions, bringing a sob into her throat.
"You mean--Henry ?" she faltered.
"I mean your husband," he assented.
She was suddenly passionately angry with herself.

It seemed to her that the days of childishness were back.