I've Had to Look at the Gorgon.

He made an allusion to m riviere's visit, and his intention had been to bury the incident in his bos. But her reminder that they were in his wife's carriage provoked him to an impulse of retaliation. He would see if she liked his reference to riviere any better than he liked hers to may. The answer checked the pleading on archer's lips. It seemed to come from depths of experience beyond his reach. Her tone was so natural, so almost indifferent, that archer's turmoil subsided once more. She had managed, by her sheer simplicity, to make him feel stupidly conventional.