That his few words did not represent the whole of him had never occurred to her.

She had often told her friends that he walked through life with his eyes shut.

He had a trick of half shutting his eyes which confirmed her in this opinion.

When she came across persons who were after a time discovered to have affections and interests of which they had not spoken, she described them as "cunning." She had never thought Edward "cunning" till to-night.

How had he, of all men, discovered this--this--?
She, had no words ready to call her conduct by, though words would not have failed her had she been denouncing the same conduct in another wife and mother.
Gradually "the whole horror of her situation"-- to borrow from her own vocabulary--forced itself upon her mind like damp through a gay wall-paper.