It burns itself out.

It will be over in a year, as we wives all know.

Do we not, Mrs.Jessop?
Ah! she is gone away." Probably they thought I was away too--or else they took no notice of me--and went talking on.
"Jane would not have agreed with you, Cousin Caroline; she loved her husband very dearly when she was a girl.

They were poor, and he was afraid to marry; so he let her go.

That was wrong, I think." "How wise we are growing in these things now!" laughed Lady Caroline.
"But come, I am not interested in old turtle-doves.