Dazedly she realized it, with unutterable relief.

And she sat there slowly gathering the nervous force that had been shattered.

Every word that he had uttered was stamped in startling characters upon her consciousness.
But she was still under the deadening influence of shock.

This raw experience was the worst the West had yet dealt her.

It brought back former states of revulsion and formed them in one whole irrefutable and damning judgment that seemed to blot out the vaguely dawning and growing happy susceptibilities.