1 Zeena's empty rocking-chair stood facing him.
2 At times, looking at Zeena's shut face, he felt the chill of such forebodings.
3 He listened for Zeena's step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs.
4 After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment Zeena's volubility was music in his ears.
5 Then the room grew perfectly black, and not a sound was audible but Zeena's asthmatic breathing.
6 In spite of her sedentary habits such abrupt decisions were not without precedent in Zeena's history.
7 They drew their seats up to the table, and the cat, unbidden, jumped between them into Zeena's empty chair.
8 It was Zeena's habit, when they came back late from the village, to leave the key of the kitchen door under the mat.
9 The cat had sprung to Zeena's rocking-chair, and the heat of the fire was beginning to draw out the faint sharp scent of the geraniums.
10 The cat had jumped from Zeena's chair to dart at a mouse in the wainscot, and as a result of the sudden movement the empty chair had set up a spectral rocking.
11 At first its weak flame made no impression on the shadows; then Zeena's face stood grimly out against the uncurtained pane, which had turned from grey to black.
12 The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes.
13 The kitchen was a poor place, not "spruce" and shining as his mother had kept it in his boyhood; but it was surprising what a homelike look the mere fact of Zeena's absence gave it.
14 The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
15 Zeena's native village was slightly larger and nearer to the railway than Starkfield, and she had let her husband see from the first that life on an isolated farm was not what she had expected when she married.
16 It was formed of Zeena's obstinate silence, of Mattie's sudden look of warning, of the memory of just such fleeting imperceptible signs as those which told him, on certain stainless mornings, that before night there would be rain.
17 Mattie Silver came from Stamford, and when she entered the Fromes' household to act as her cousin Zeena's aid it was thought best, as she came without pay, not to let her feel too sharp a contrast between the life she had left and the isolation of a Starkfield farm.
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