He was like a bear with a sore head just at that time.

There was no living in the house with him.

I daresay Hermy may have told you all about that." "Hermione is not by nature so communicative as you are, Captain Clavering." "Isn't she?
I should have thought between sisters--; but of course that's no business of mine." Again she was silent, awfully silent, and he became aware that he must either get up and go away or carry on the conversation himself.

To do either seemed to be equally difficult, and for a while he sat there almost gasping in his misery.

He was quite aware that as yet he had not made her know that he was there.