They seemed to have reached a new norm of tacitly agreed distance. She was certainly far from happy, pretty certainly her health was paying for her bitterness of mood, but it was apparently a resigned bitterness. He was certainly not genial, pretty certainly indifferent, but apparently content to carry on. The domestic staff accepted the atmosphere of this new act. The house ran quietly. Arnoldo went out little. He was apparently absorbed in his work. His day was almost as regular as though he had had an office to attend. He would work from after breakfast; be called for lunch; return immediately after; be called in time to change for dinner. Once she remarked to him, in the, few exchanges they had, that she had been doing the month’s house-bills and the bill for current was very high. Did he think the servants left the lights on all day in their quarters? He thought it was more likely his fault. If that was so, he did not think the consumption would be anything like so high next month.
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