He refused to discuss it with me.

It was not from want of confidence in me--there was the most complete love and confidence between us--but it was out of his desire to keep all alarm away from me.

He thought I should brood over it if I knew all, and so he was silent." "How did you know it, then ?" Mrs.Douglas's face lit with a quick smile.

"Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of it?
I knew it by his refusal to talk about some episodes in his American life.

I knew it by certain precautions he took.