With his features swollen and an air of being drugged, he followed his wife's movements with his eyes.
Mrs Verloc went about serenely, clearing up the table.

Her tranquil voice commented the idea thrown out in a reasonable and domestic tone.
It wouldn't stand examination.

She condemned it from every point of view.

But her only real concern was Stevie's welfare.

He appeared to her thought in that connection as sufficiently "peculiar" not to be taken rashly abroad.