Joanna was utterly astounded that, in fact, it was not only her who heard all the discourteous conversation, which put her and her husband as the ultimate subjects.
It had never crossed her mind that, instead of having his focus on her father and his acquaintances, who seemed eager to have him engaged in their conversation, as if they did not want to lose an opportunity to get to know him well, he, her husband, was actually with her all that time.
That only meant that he heard all the talk that was brought up to disrespect him.
Joanna was not sure what his exact thoughts or feelings were because of that. Did he ignore them, like his suggestion for how they should face any comments that were addressed to them? Or did he finally realize how annoying the woman that he had chosen as his wife was, which caused him to become the object of insult?
