She had never felt the truth of this so strongly before.

She looked away into the fire; it seemed to her that even physically they were now scarcely within speaking distance; and spiritually there was certainly no human being with whom she could claim comradeship; no dream that satisfied her as she was used to be satisfied; nothing remained in whose reality she could believe, save those abstract ideas--figures, laws, stars, facts, which she could hardly hold to for lack of knowledge and a kind of shame.
When Rodney owned to himself the folly of this prolonged silence, and the meanness of such devices, and looked up ready to seek some excuse for a good laugh, or opening for a confession, he was disconcerted by what he saw.

Katharine seemed equally oblivious of what was bad or of what was good in him.

Her expression suggested concentration upon something entirely remote from her surroundings.

The carelessness of her attitude seemed to him rather masculine than feminine.