Which excerpt from the awakening best reveals that mr. pontellier has no awareness of his wife’s true thoughts or activities?
he was not dreaming of scandal when he uttered this warning; that was a thing which would never have entered into his mind to consider in connection with his wife's name or his own.
but remembering edna's whimsical turn of mind of late, and foreseeing that she had immediately acted upon her impetuous determination, he grasped the situation with his usual promptness and handled it with his well-known business tact and cleverness.
when the situation as set forth by mr. pontellier was accepted and taken for granted, she was apparently satisfied that it should be so.
the pigeon house her. it at once assumed the intimate character of a home, while she herself invested it with a charm which it reflected like a warm glow. there was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.