He was not like others, as Henrietta had warned her.

From thinking of him fervidly, she was already past the marvel of the thought that she called him husband.

At the same time, a curious intimation, gathered she knew not whence, of the word 'husband' on a young wife's lips as being a foreign sound in England, advised her to withhold it.

His behaviour was instructing her.
'Are you weather-wise ?--able to tell when the clouds will hold off or pelt,' he said, to be very civil to a neighbour.
She collected her understanding, apparently; treating a conversational run of the tongue as a question to be pondered; and the horses paid for it.

Ordinarily he was gentle with his beasts.