The Fog Princes by Florence Warden

Mrs. Pennant was a woman of some strength of character, which had never before come out so vividly as it did on the occasion of her husband's death.

She spent very little time in weeping over his loss. She was one of those women in whom the instincts of maternal affection are much stronger than the marital; and in truth her patience had been so hardly tried by Captain Pennant's almost imbecile mismanagement of his affairs and the necessity of controlling her exasperation into the outer aspect of submissive respect, that there was a touch of relief even in her sorrow.