A proposal to do so had been met with a storm of angry amazement.

And steam and electricity had not then annihilated distance and abolished suspense.

She could but wonder and hope, and try to read the truth from a covert inspection of the face and words of Fray Ignatius.
Between this monk and herself the breach was hourly widening.

With angry pain she saw her mother tortured between the fact that she loved her husband, and the horrible doubt that to love him was a mortal sin.

She understood the underlying motive which prompted the priest to urge upon the Senora the removal of herself and her daughters to the convent.
His offer to take charge of the Worth residencia and estate was in her conviction a proposal to rob them of all rights in it.