She could read in the conventional sentences, made simple as for a child, the strained politeness, and his absolute silence as to whether or not a child had been born to them, the utter absence of affection for her.
She had also induced General Armour and his wife to give her husband's solicitor no information regarding the birth of the child.

There was thus apparently no more inducement for him to hurry back to England than there was when he had sent her off on his mission of retaliation, which had been such an ignominious failure.

For the humiliation of his family had been short-lived, the affront to Lady Haldwell nothing at all.
The Armours had not been human if they had failed to enjoy their daughter-in-law's success.

Although they never, perhaps, would quite recover the disappointment concerning Lady Agnes Martling, the result was so much better than they in their cheerfulest moments dared hope for, that they appeared genuinely content.
To their grandchild they were devotedly attached.

Marion was his faithful slave and admirer, so much so that Captain Vidall, who now and then was permitted to see the child, declared himself jealous.