Her features lost the appearance of stony indifference that had exasperated her father into his outburst of anger and sorrow.

The expression of her face, now unseen by her father, underwent a rapid change.

She had listened to Almayer's appeal for sympathy, for one word of comfort, apparently indifferent, yet with her breast torn by conflicting impulses raised unexpectedly by events she had not foreseen, or at least did not expect to happen so soon.

With her heart deeply moved by the sight of Almayer's misery, knowing it in her power to end it with a word, longing to bring peace to that troubled heart, she heard with terror the voice of her overpowering love commanding her to be silent.

And she submitted after a short and fierce struggle of her old self against the new principle of her life.
She wrapped herself up in absolute silence, the only safeguard against some fatal admission.