'Yes?'
'I've been wanting to say something to you.'
Edith leant forward, putting her elbows on her knees and her face on her hands, and said:
'Oh, do tell me, Eglantine. What is it?'
'It is simply this,' said the other lady, calmly continuing her knitting…. 'Very often when one's living with a person, one doesn't notice little things a comparative stranger would observe. Is that not so?'
'What have you observed? What's it about?'
'It is about your husband,' said Madame Frabelle.
'What! Bruce?' asked Edith.
'Naturally,' replied Madame Frabelle dryly.
'What have you observed about Bruce?'