Once only did I see her lose her self-possession.

At starting on our way south, Mrs.Baggs--taking the same incomprehensible personal offense at my misfortune which she had previously taken at the doctor's--upbraided me with my want of confidence in her, and declared that it was the main cause of all my present trouble.

Alicia turned on her as she was uttering the words, with a look and a warning that silenced her in an instant: "If you say another syllable that isn't kind to him, you shall find your way back by yourself!" The words may not seem of much importance to others; but I thought, as I overheard them, that they justified every sacrifice I had made for my wife's sake..