Under the circumstances, things would be righted.

Her actions would be justified.
She really was not enamored of Drouet.

She was more clever than he.

In a dim way, she was beginning to see where he lacked.

If it had not been for this, if she had not been able to measure and judge him a way, she would have been utterly wretched in her fear of not gaining his affection, of losing his interest, of being swept away and left without an anchorage.