"You mean it makes you feel that you have nothing ?" To which, as she made no answer, the Colonel added: "What in the world did you ever suppose was going to happen?
The man's in a position in which he has nothing in life to do." Her silence seemed to characterise this statement as superficial, and her thoughts, as always in her husband's company, pursued an independent course.

He made her, when they were together, talk, but as if for some other person; who was in fact for the most part herself.

Yet she addressed herself with him as she could never have done without him.
"He has behaved beautifully--he did from the first.

I've thought it, all along, wonderful of him; and I've more than once, when I've had a chance, told him so.

Therefore, therefore--!" But it died away as she mused.
"Therefore he has a right, for a change, to kick up his heels ?" "It isn't a question, of course, however," she undivertedly went on, "of their behaving beautifully apart.