But, Oh! she was profoundly humiliated, shamed through and through.

The question, was I guilty of any lightness--anything to bring this on me?
would not be laid.

And how she pitied her friend! This house, her heart's home, was now a wreck to her: nay, worse, a hostile citadel.

The burden of the task of meeting Emma with an open face, crushed her like very guilt.

Yet she succeeded.