And for some time there was silence between them.
Then he watched her as she bent over her embroidery.
"You are very beautiful, Winifred," he said quietly, "but you are a selfish woman.

Has it ever struck you that you are selfish ?" Mrs.Reffold gave no reply, but she made a resolution to write to her particular friend at Cannes and confide to her how very trying her husband had become.
"I suppose it is part of his illness," she thought meekly.

"But it is hard to have to bear it." And Mrs.Reffold pitied herself profoundly.

She stitched sincere pity for herself into that piece of embroidery.
"I remember you telling me," continued Mr.Reffold, "that sick people repelled you.

That was when I was strong and vigorous.