I won't believe that Mrs.
Charmond has encouraged him.

Even supposing she has encouraged a great many, she can have no motive to do it now.

What so likely as that she is not yet quite well, and doesn't care to let another doctor come near her ?" He did not heed.

"Grace used to be so busy every day, with fixing a curtain here and driving a tin-tack there; but she cares for no employment now!" "Do you know anything of Mrs.Charmond's past history?
Perhaps that would throw some light upon things.

Before she came here as the wife of old Charmond four or five years ago, not a soul seems to have heard aught of her.