"We have talked all over the house," she said. "I feel as if I have been on an excursion. Yes, it is strange. Don't you think they have quarreled?"
"Perhaps—but it will bring them closer together."
"Yes," she said, "but I wouldn't like to quarrel just to be brought closer together. I wonder why Mr. Bodney went away, too."
"And you ask?"
"Yes, didn't you hear me? I heard him muttering as he went out. And I understood him to say that he wasn't coming back any more."
"I thought you knew why he went."
"Thought I did? How was I to know?"
"I could not help but think—"
"What did you think?" she broke in.
"That he had asked you to be his wife and—"