Her voice was quiet.
"She did not."
He strode out of the house.
After that he never told her when he was going up to Garthdale toward nightfall. He was sometimes driven to lie. It was up Rathdale he was going, or to Greffington, or to smoke a pipe with Ned Alderson, or to turn in for a game of billiards at the village club.
And whenever he lied to her she saw through him. She was prepared for the lie. She said to herself, "He is going to see Gwenda. He can't keep away from her."
And then she remembered what Alice had said to her. "You'll know some day."
She knew.
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And with her knowledge there came a curious calm.
She no longer watched and worried Rowcliffe. She knew that no wife ever kept her husband by watching and worrying him.