This damned fever has got into my brain." She leaned against the door in silence.

Her physical strength was coming back to her, but yet she could not move, and she had no words to speak.
He seemed to have reft from her every faculty of thought and feeling save a burning sense of shame.

By his violence he had broken down all her defences.

She seemed to have lost both the power and the will to resist.

She remained speechless while the dreadful seconds crept away.
He turned round upon her at length suddenly, almost with a movement of exasperation.