They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

“Really the answers I get are idiotic. The entire correspondence of you and Robb…”

“It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thi…”

“Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are …”