The doctor had expressed his sense of obligation by bidding her get into her carriage again, and go.

"I have been put in a passion; I have made a fool of myself; I haven't a nerve in my body that isn't quivering with rage.

Go! go! go!" There was his explanation.

Impenetrably obstinate, Mrs.Galilee faced him--standing between the doctor and the door--without shrinking.

She had not driven all the way to Benjulia's house to be sent back again without gaining her object: she had her questions to put to him, and she persisted in pressing them as only a woman can.