"I hope you'll take that into account.

You really might just as well give in first as last." But Sylvia had given in, and she knew it.

Nothing but a miracle could save her now.

The only loophole she had for herself was one which she realized already was highly unlikely to serve her.

She had been practically forced into submission, and she did not attempt to disguise the fact from herself.
Yet if only Guy had not failed her, she knew that no power on earth would have sufficed to move her, no clamour of battle could ever have made her quail.