"I don't think he's a hypocrite," said the wife.
"I'm sure he's not," said Kate Daly.
Not a word more was spoken, and Harry immediately left the house.

The two women did not as usual go to the gate to see him mount his horse, not refraining from doing so in any anger, or as wishing to exhibit displeasure at Harry's violence, but because they were afraid of him.
They had found themselves compelled to differ from him, but were oppressed at finding themselves in opposition to him.
The feeling that his wife should in any way take part against him added greatly to Heathcote's trouble.

It produced in his mind a terrible feeling of loneliness in his sorrow.

He bore a brave outside to all his men, and to any stranger whom in these days he met about the run--to his wife and sister also, and to the old woman at home.
He forced upon them all an idea that he was not only autocratic, but self-sufficient also--that he wanted neither help nor sympathy.

He never cried out in his pain, being heartily ashamed even of the appeal which he had made to Medlicot.