She will at last give an unwilling assent to the course you propose.

That is what may be expected.

But if she should be firmer than we think, if there should be in her bosom a greater power of resistance than we expect, should she dash herself too violently against the cage,--then you must let her go.' That was intended to be the gist of the advice given, though it perhaps was not so accurately expressed.
It was in that way understood by the old man; but Mrs.Bolton would not so understand it.

She had taken the matter in hand, and as she pressed her lips together she told herself that she intended to go through with it.
And so did Hester.

But as this day went on, Hester became at times almost hysterical in her efforts to communicate with her husband through the window, holding up her baby and throwing back her head, and was almost in convulsions in her efforts to get at him.