Indeed, she seemed so overcome with cold as to seem almost unable to move.

In the sense of her helplessness all idea of the strangeness of the situation entirely disappeared.

It was not as if my first idea of death taken from her cerements was negatived.

It was simply that I did not think of it at all; I was content to accept things as they were--she was a woman, and in some dreadful trouble; that was enough.
I am thus particular about my own emotions, as I may have to refer to them again in matters of comprehension or comparison.

The whole thing is so vastly strange and abnormal that the least thing may afterwards give some guiding light or clue to something otherwise not understandable.