I did not know anything about life.

He was kind, but he never understood me." Magdalen's eyes filled with tears.

In the room at the end of the passage she had listened to her mother's faint voice in nights of wakeful weakness speaking of her unhappy marriage.

Did all women who failed to love deep enough say the same things?
And as Magdalen had listened in silence then so she listened in silence now.
"He did not trust me.

And then I had no children, and he was dreadfully disappointed.