She had no means of explaining what she felt intensely, that dangers, death, were nothing to either of them, if they shared the fate together.
Her rejected petition to her husband for an allowance of money, on the day in Wales, became the vivid memory which brings out motives in its glow.

Her husband hated her brother; and why?
But the answer was lighted fierily down another avenue.

A true husband, a lord of wealth, would have rejoiced to help the brother of his wife.

He was the cause of Chillon's ruin and this adventure to restore his fortunes.

Could she endure a close alliance with the man while her brother's life was imperilled?
Carinthia rebuked her drowsy head for not having seen his reason for refusing at the time.