For the sake of worldly appearances, Emerson most regretted the unhappy event.

Next, his trouble was for Irene and her father, but most for Irene.
"Willful, wayward one!" he said many, many times.

"You, of all, will suffer most.

No woman can take a step like this without drinking of pain to the bitterest dregs.

If you can hide the anguish, well.