If he would now speak to her with the unreserve which had sometimes been too much for her before, it would be most consoling; but _that_ she found was not to be.

She seldom saw him: never alone.

He probably avoided being alone with her.

What was to be inferred?
That his judgment submitted to all his own peculiar and bitter share of this family affliction, but that it was too keenly felt to be a subject of the slightest communication.

This must be his state.