She seems to me to have a very lonely kind of life." "Of course she does--in the intervals." "What ?" "There are intervals, of course.

Miss King isn't the sort of woman to form an intimacy with another man until she is really a widow.

It's quite natural that she should feel lonely just now, for instance.

The mere absence of the excitement she's been accustomed to for so long would have a depressing effect on her.".