Some not understood astonishment caused all her passion to die down.

For all the pitifully cruel experiences of her life she was still very young--young and ignorant of any but the vilest of men.

Hitherto she had felt when they were kind that it was for some gain, and if a woman relented a second she would be sure to be trapped.

For her self-respect and her soul's sake she must go armed at all points.

And after her hurling at him all her scorn, instead of her husband turning round and perhaps beating her (as, certainly, Ladislaus would have done), he had answered with dignity and gone out of the room.
And she remembered her father's cold mien.