Glancing at the "Marriage" column, he saw a notice to the effect that on a certain day of a certain month, Francis Gilbert, the son of General Joseph Armour, C.B., of Greyhope, Hertfordshire, and Cavendish Square, was married to Lali, the daughter of Eye-of-the-Moon, chief of the Bloods, at her father's lodge in the Saskatchewan Valley.
This had been inserted by Frank Armour's solicitor, according to his instructions, on the day that the Aphrodite was due at Liverpool.
General Armour did not at first intend to show this to his wife, but on second thought he did, because he knew she would eventually come to know of it, and also because she saw that something had moved him.
She silently reached out her hand for the paper.

He handed it to her, pointing to the notice.
Mrs.Armour was unhappy, but her self-possession was admirable, and she said nothing.

She turned her face to the window, and sat for a long time looking out.

She did not turn to the others, for her eyes were full of tears, and she did not dare to wipe them away, nor yet to let them be seen.

She let them dry there.