Was she well dressed?
She thought sufficiently so.

Perhaps she was late?
She looked for a clock.
"It's a good thing we didn't take the house then," she repeated thoughtfully.
"It'll mean, too, I'm afraid, that I shan't be as free for a considerable time as I have been," he continued.

She had time to reflect that she gained something by all this, though it was too soon to determine what.

But the light which had been burning with such intensity as she came along was suddenly overclouded, as much by his manner as by his news.

She had been prepared to meet opposition, which is simple to encounter compared with--she did not know what it was that she had to encounter.