Being his wife, it might be her duty not to see her husband's iniquities.
But Lady Lufton could not be deceived.

She knew very well in what part of the county Cobbold's Ashes lay.

It was not in Framley parish, nor in the next parish to it.

It was half-way across to Chaldicotes--in the western division; and she had heard of that run in which two horses had been killed, and in which Parson Robarts had won such immortal glory among West Barsetshire sportsmen.

It was not easy to keep Lady Lufton in the dark as to matters occurring in her own county.
All these things she knew, but as yet had not noticed, grieving over them in her own heart the more on that account.