Of course she was just like the rest! but he did not at once succeed in fitting what he saw to what he entirely believed of her.

She remained, like Sepia, a riddle to be solved.

He was not so ignorant as his wife concerning the relations of the different classes, and he felt certain there must be some reason, of course a discreditable one, for her leaving her former, and taking her present, position.

The attack he had in Cornwall afforded him unexpected opportunity of making her out, as he called it.
Upon this occasion it was also that Mary first ventured to expostulate with her mistress on her neglect of her husband.

She heard her patiently; and the same day, going to his room, paid him some small attention--handed him his medicine, I believe, but clumsily, because ungraciously.