What did all this mean?
She felt very unhappy, but not angry or alarmed.

She did not want to hurt him.

Had she been very unkind?
After all, he had behaved, in comparison to Ladislaus, with wonderful self-control--and--yes, supposing he were not quite a sensual brute she had been very hard.

She knew what pride meant; she had abundance herself, and she realized for the first time how she must have been stinging his.
But there were facts which could not be got over.

He had married her for her uncle's money and then shown at once that her person tempted him, when it could not be anything else.
She got up and walked about the room.