Each time she demanded he answer her questions, he refused. She could feel her anger rise higher and higher. Why wouldn't he tell her anything? Perhaps she had gotten used to a certain dynamic in her marriage. As far as she could tell, her husband didn't keep secrets from her. Antonin told her all of the hard, scary truths. At times she knew more than she wanted to know, but he never kept anything from her. Part of her assumed that that was how all relationships were. Was Augustus unable to recognize the fact that she wasn't the young witch she used to be when they were first together? No longer was she the child locked up in the broom cupboard that he felt he had to protect from the nastiness of the post-war events in the castle. Even then she knew what was happening. He didn't have to spell it out in great detail, but she knew what the shrieks from the other women who didn't have the benefit of his protection meant.