To enjoy the silent, perfect workings of the great household, to drive herself or be driven, to walk and read, to loiter through walled gardens and hothouses at will,--such things to a healthy woman with an unobscured power of enjoyment were luxuries which could not pall.
Walderhust found her an actual addition to his comfort.

She was never in the way.

She seemed to have discovered the trick of coming and going undisturbingly.

She was docile and affectionate, but not in the least sentimental.

He had known men whose first years of marriage, not to speak of the first months, had been rendered unbearable by the fact that their wives were constantly demanding or expecting the expression of sentiments which unsentimental males had not at their fingers' ends.