She tried to let her thought fall into his rational presentation of the question involving precedence, and even said to herself that he was right; but pride was strong, and kept lifting itself in her mind.

She saw, most clearly, the hardest aspect of the case.

It was, in her view, command and obedience.

And she knew that submission was, for her, impossible.
On the part of Emerson, the day's sober thought left his mind in no more hopeful condition than that of his wife.

The pain suffered in consequence of her temporary flight from home, though lessened by her return, had not subsided.