During the day Henry had asked several times for bulletins as to Elsie\'s consumption of food, and he received them with satisfaction, but also with a certain sardonic air new in Violet\'s experience of him. This demeanour was one of the things that disquieted Violet. Another was that, contrary to his habit of solicitude for her, he made absolutely no inquiry as to her own health, though he surely ought to have been ever so little disturbed about it. And another was that he no longer showed his customary quiet pleasure in being w............