There was no reaction either, to speak of, no gloomy disgust.

She was physically acceptable to him.

He could always talk to her in a genial, teasing way, even tender, for she did not offend his intellectuality with prudish or conventional notions.

Loving and foolish as she was in some ways, she would stand blunt reproof or correction.

She could suggest in a nebulous, blundering way things that would be good for them to do.
Most of all at present their thoughts centered upon Chicago society, the new house, which by now had been contracted for, and what it would do to facilitate their introduction and standing.