She did not any longer bloom with normal health.

Her face was a little dragged, and the first thing he noted in the eyes she lifted to him was that they were bewildered.
"She has had a shock," he thought.

"Poor woman!" He began to talk to her about herself with the kindly perception which was inseparable from him.

He wondered if the time had not come when she would confide in him.

Her shock, whatsoever it had been, had left her in the position of a woman wholly at a loss to comprehend what had occurred.