Loneliness and the long struggle to face the world without her man; the determination of this masterful young woman who had been so long a part of her husband's life; and, more than all, a new feeling altogether--love, and the dependence a woman feels, the longing to find rest in strong arms, which comes with the first revelation of love, had conquered what Kitty had called her "bossiness." She was now tremulous before the crisis which she must presently face.

Pride in her fortune, in her independence, had died down in her.

She no longer thought of herself as a woman especially endowed and privileged.

She took her fortune now like a man; for she had been taught that a man could set her aside just because she had money, could desert her to be independent of it.

It had been a revelation to her, and she was chastened of all the termagancy visible and invisible in her.