She is incandescent to a breath of rumour.

It accounted for her having detractors; a heavy counterpoise to her enthusiastic friends.

It might account for her husband's discontent-the reduction of him to a state of mere masculine antagonism.
What is the husband of a vanward woman?
He feels himself but a diminished man.

The English husband of a voluble woman relapses into a dreary mute.

Ah, for the choice of places! Redworth would have yielded her the loquent lead for the smallest of the privileges due to him who now rejected all, except the public scourging of her.