Harriet likewise had been silent.

As far as could be observed, however, she seemed to take a pleasure in Ida's society, and, as Julian said, with apparently good result to herself.

She was more at home than formerly, and her health even seemed to profit by the change.
Still, there was something not altogether natural in all this, and Julian could scarcely bring himself to believe in the happy turn things seemed to be taking.

In Harriet herself there was no corresponding growth of cheerfulness or good-nature.

She was quiet, but with a quietness not altogether pleasant; it was as though her thoughts were constantly occupied, as never hitherto; and her own moral condition was hardly likely to be the subject of these meditations.