And their children?
It was strange he had not thought of that before.

Children?
He shrugged his shoulders.

There might possibly be a child, but children--never! But he doubted even regarding a child, for no word had come to him concerning that possibility.

He was even most puzzled at the tone and substance of their letters.

From the beginning there had been no reproaches, no excitement, no railing, but studied kindness and conventional statements, through which Mrs.Armour's solicitous affection scarcely ever peeped.