half-contemptuously

Updated: June 5, 2025

At least once a day she looked in upon him there, sometimes with Emily, sometimes with Ella, never, after that first day, alone. "You can see that he's perfectly devoted to that dolly-faced wife of his!" Ella said, half-contemptuously. "I think we all bore him," Emily said. "Stephen is a good and noble man," said his wife's old cousin. Susan never permitted herself to speak of him.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Saturday's Child