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She saw him grow older and harder under that job ; she saw him often haggard from the strain and sleepless because of a dozen intricate problems ; but she never heard him complain and she never saw him any way but courageous and often boyishly gay when he 'd got the best of some difficulty . And furthermore , she knew that if she had been the kind of a woman who is not interested in her husband 's work he would have kept it to himself , as most American husbands do . If he had , she would have missed a chance to learn a lot of things that winter , and she probably would n't have known anything about the final chapter in the history of the job that the two of them had fallen into the habit of referring to as the White Elephant . They had moved back to New York then , and the Rockford bank building was within two weeks of its completion , when at seven o'clock one morning their telephone rang . Rob answered it and his wife heard him say sharply : ` Well , what are you doing about it ? ' And then : ` Keep it up . I 'll catch the next train . ' ''