| a bit | 9 | temporal |
| in the short story | 7 | location |
| often | 3 | temporal |
| husband → be → baffled | 19 |
| husband → be → perplexed | 11 |
| husband → be → puzzled | 7 |
| husband → be → mystified | 5 |
| husband → be → bemused | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.385 | 0.393 | 0.222 |
| Raw frequency | 45 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.418 |
| Modifier score | 0.600 |
| Perplexity | 343.406 |