He knew from this letter that Josephine did not suppose that blame attached to O'Shea.

She spoke of her husband's death as an accident.

Caius knew that she had accepted it as a deliverance from God.

It was this attitude of hers which made the whole circumstance appear to him the more solemn.
So Caius waited through the lovely season in which summer hovers with warm sunshiny wings over a land of flowers before she settles down upon it to abide.

He was unhappy.