She was paler even than when they had started.
"I am going to talk to you very little," he said gravely.

"I want you just to rest and breathe this wonderful air.

If my reply to your question troubles you, I am sorry, but you had to know it some day.

It is a wrench, of course, but you must have guessed it.

Your husband is a man of peculiar temperament, but no man could have refused such an offer as you made him, unless there had been some special reason for it--no man in the world." There was a little tremble in his tone, artistic and not overdone.
Somehow, she felt that his admiration ministered to her self-respect.
She permitted his hand to remain upon hers.