You begin to feel, to understand.

You are a woman to-night! Why?
Answer me that! Why?
Why to-night?
Why not before?
Why is it that to-night you have awakened?
I will know! Look at me." She was taken unawares, assailed suddenly, not only by his words but by those curious new sensations, her own, yet unfamiliar to her.

It was civil war.

A part of herself was in league with her accuser.

She felt the blushes stain her cheeks.