And then he cried, "Since when has Grizel ceased to care for housekeeping ?" She did not say since when.

I don't know whether she knew; but it was since she and Tommy had ceased to correspond.

David's words showed her too suddenly how she had changed, and it was then that she broke down before him--because she had ceased to care for housekeeping.
But she had her way, and early in the new year David and his wife were established in their new home, with all Grizel's furniture, except such as was needed for the two rooms rented by her from Gavinia.

She would have liked to take away the old doctor's chair, because it was the bit of him left behind when he died, and then for that very reason she did not.

She no longer wanted him to see her always.