Her eyes were soft and her lips quivering.
"You make me feel," she said, taking his hand for a moment and looking at him almost piteously, "you make me feel everything except one thing." "Except one thing ?" he repeated.
"Can't you understand ?" she continued, stretching out her hand with a quick, impulsive little movement.

"I am here in Henry's house, his wife, the mistress of his household.

All the years we've been married I have never thought of another man.

I have never indulged in even the idlest flirtation.

And now suddenly my life seems upside down.