She was tired physically, but she was still more tired mentally.

She had the bruised feeling of one who has been humiliated before the world and before herself.

Her self-respect was for the moment crushed, and the breach made in the wholeness of personal dignity had produced a strange slackness of nerve, extending both to body and mind.

She had been convicted, it seemed to her, in her own eyes, and in those of her world, of an egregious over-estimate of her own value.

She walked with hung head like one ashamed, the overstrung religious sense deepening her discomfiture at every step.