When Noah swayed, Keith asked after him.

When I swayed, Keith asked after Noah again — and you, he said to our son, as though I were not in the room, as though my unsteadiness were not a question but an expected result, a thing already known and therefore not worth asking about.

A husband who is surprised by his wife’s dizziness asks whether she is all right.

A husband who is not surprised does not need to ask.