She was a naive soul who had never presumed so far as to judge her husband, or admit to herself that he bored her. She supposed, without saying so, that there could be no tenderer relationship between husband and wife. She especially liked M. de Renal when he told her about his plans for their children, one of whom he had slated for the army, the second for the bench, and the third for the church. In short, she found M. de Renal far less tiresome than all the other men of her acquaintance.