John could not think of anything but the trial of the coming day.

Jane was pondering two circumstances that seemed to have changed her point of view.

Do as she would, she could not regard things as she had done.

Of a stubborn race and family, she had hitherto regarded her word as inviolable, her resolves, if once declared, as beyond recall.

She quite understood Lord and Lady Harlow's long resentment against their son, and she knew instinctively that her uncle's extreme self-denial for the purpose of improving the Harlow estate was to say to his heir, "See how I have loved you, in spite of my silence." Now Jane had declared her mind positively to John on certain questions between them, and it never occurred to her that retraction was possible.
Or if it did occur, she considered it a weakness to be instantly conquered.