The lady did not seem to him quite to fill the part of the Heaven-thanking spouse.

It puzzled him very much.

Perhaps he showed this in his face.

At any rate, Lady Honoria, who was quick enough, read something there.
"He is safe now, is he not ?" she asked.

"It will not matter if I go away." "No, my lady," answered the assistant, "he is out of danger, I think; it will not matter at all." Lady Honoria hesitated a little; she was standing in the passage.
Then she glanced through the door into the opposite room, and caught a glimpse of Beatrice's rigid form and of the doctor bending over it.