Certainly this is an interesting note: "the crippling remorse he will feel following her death in 1866, when he discovers, from her writing, how unhappy she had

Certainly this is an interesting note: "the crippling remorse he will feel following her death in 1866, when he discovers, from her writing, how unhappy she had been". It's fascinating to learn that a couple so verbal never (successfully) communicated this unhappiness. I had assumed from the introduction that these were people who did not care about one another's wellbeing, but Thomas at least was seemingly unaware of the problem.