She was evidently not following Roderick at all in his dusky aberrations.

Sitting without, in dismay, she only saw that all was darkness and trouble, and as Roderick's glory had now quite outstripped her powers of imagination and urged him beyond her jurisdiction, so that he had become a thing too precious and sacred for blame, she found it infinitely comfortable to lay the burden of their common affliction upon Rowland's broad shoulders.

Had he not promised to make them all rich and happy?
And this was the end of it! Rowland felt as if his trials were, in a sense, only beginning.

"Had n't you better forget all this, my dear ?" Mrs.Hudson said.

"Had n't you better just quietly attend to your work ?" "Work, madame ?" cried Roderick.