morning, noon
It was , simply , that Mary was morbidly , madly jealous of him . He had shown far too soon that he had married her for her money , and if he had convinced her that she had bought him , it was perhaps natural in return that she should wish for her money 's worth . The poor woman was passionately in love with Nigel . She suspected him of infidelity , with and without reason , morning , noon , and night ; it was almost a monomania . They had two children in the first and second years of the marriage . Nigel was carelessly fond of them , but he regarded them rather as a private luxury and resource of his wife , mistakenly thinking their society could fill up all the gaps made by his rather frequent absences . Nigel knew better than to complain of his wife , or to ask for sympathy from Bertha , for he was certain that if she had the faintest idea of the jealousy , her door would be closed to him .