In the return of a private, hamlin garland writes that the tenderness between edward and emma smith "found utterance in tones, rather than in words" the clearest example of this expression comes when?

The clearest example would be when Edward decides to sleep on the train station bench rather than the hotel.

The behavior that displayed by Edward is considered a passive agressive behavior, so even though he does not necessarily say his true feelings, others who see it clearly understand the utterance.