She stared at Roger, strangely conscious that something epoch-making and decisive had happened.

Roger had had a secret from her all these years--that was what had happened; and now she had discovered it.

That he _could_ have a secret from her, however, was the real discovery.

She felt a fierce resentment, and yet a kind of added respect for him.

All the time he had been the private owner of thoughts and recollections that she had no part in, and the fact roused in her tumult and bitterness.