It revealed far more than came into her consciousness at the time, else would she have covered it with one of the rippling smiles she had already learned to throw, like a spangled veil, over her face.
Mrs.Dewey spent nearly a month in S----and then went back with her husband to New York.

I saw them several times together during this period.

He had grown more pompous in manner, and talked in a larger way.
Our little town was simply contemptible in his eyes, and he was at no pains to conceal his opinion.

New York was everything; and a New York merchant of passable standing, able to put two or three towns like S----in his breeches pocket.
The only interest I felt in this conceited young man was as the husband of my young friend; and as touching their relation to each other, I observed both of them very closely.

It did not take me long to discover that there was no true bond of love between them.