There is so much in a turn of the eye and in the tone given to a word when such things have to be said,--so much more of importance than in the words themselves.

As Trevelyan thought of this, and remembered what his manner had been, how much anger he had expressed, how far he had been from having his arm round his wife's waist as he spoke to her, he almost made up his mind to go up-stairs and to apologise.

But he was one to whose nature the giving of any apology was repulsive.

He could not bear to have to own himself to have been wrong.

And then his wife had been most provoking in her manner to him.