It only means that the City jury is in a rage.

Yet every one of them would be dishonest on as great a scale if they dared, or had the chance.' 'Something in that, I dare say,' conceded Hugh.
He admired his wife more than ever.

Calm when she lost her trinkets, Sibyl exhibited no less self-command now that she was suddenly deprived of her whole fortune, about eight hundred a year.

She had once remarked on the pleasantness and fitness of a wife's possessing in her own name an income equal to that of her husband; yet she resigned it without fuss.

Indeed, Sibyl never made a fuss about anything.