They were married; but they understood each other, and suffered the inevitable consequences.

Such troubles seldom fail to find a tongue; and it is not strange that in this case neighbors and friends, and ultimately the whole country, came to know the state of things in that house.

Lincoln scarcely attempted to conceal it.

He talked of it with little or no reserve to his wife's relatives, as well as to his own friends.

Yet the gentleness and patience with which he bore this affliction from day to day and from year to year was enough to move the shade of Socrates.