Matilda could not but remark his indifference: He was conscious that She remarked it, and fearing her reproaches, shunned her studiously.

Yet when He could not avoid her, her mildness might have convinced him that He had nothing to dread from her resentment.

She had resumed the character of the gentle interesting Rosario: She taxed him not with ingratitude; But her eyes filled with involuntary tears, and the soft melancholy of her countenance and voice uttered complaints far more touching than words could have conveyed.

Ambrosio was not unmoved by her sorrow; But unable to remove its cause, He forbore to show that it affected him.
As her conduct convinced him that He needed not fear her vengeance, He continued to neglect her, and avoided her company with care.

Matilda saw that She in vain attempted to regain his affections: Yet She stifled the impulse of resentment, and continued to treat her inconstant Lover with her former fondness and attention.
By degrees Elvira's constitution recovered itself.