Undisciplined and unfortified by the knowledge that disappointment is an integral part of all lives, there had suddenly come upon me a disappointment the most total.

It covered everything; there was not a flicker of hope or palliation.

And I had no idea where to go to make myself another hope, or in what course lay palliation.

As we have prepared ourselves or have been prepared, so is the issue of our temptations.

My great temptation came upon me, foolish, ignorant, unprepared: the wonder would have been if I had resisted it to my own credit.
The days went on as usual at R----, and I must hold my place among the careless daughters and not let them see my trouble.