But if you would consider her position now--surely, surely, you would do her no harm!" "Certainly I would do her no harm--I--" Melbury's eye met hers.

It was curious, but the allusion to Grace's former love for her seemed to touch her more than all Melbury's other arguments.

"Oh, Melbury," she burst out, "you have made me so unhappy! How could you come to me like this! It is too dreadful! Now go away--go, go!" "I will," he said, in a husky tone.
As soon as he was out of the room she went to a corner and there sat and writhed under an emotion in which hurt pride and vexation mingled with better sentiments.
Mrs.Charmond's mobile spirit was subject to these fierce periods of stress and storm.

She had never so clearly perceived till now that her soul was being slowly invaded by a delirium which had brought about all this; that she was losing judgment and dignity under it, becoming an animated impulse only, a passion incarnate.

A fascination had led her on; it was as if she had been seized by a hand of velvet; and this was where she found herself--overshadowed with sudden night, as if a tornado had passed by.
While she sat, or rather crouched, unhinged by the interview, lunch-time came, and then the early afternoon, almost without her consciousness.