had been too much
for her. She had not been prepared for one like this, nor for such an
effect as the sight of him had produced. At this first interview he
had overpowered her utterly, and she had sat dumb and motionless
before him. All the sneering speeches which she had prepared in
 of the meeting were useless. She found no place for
them. But there was one result to this interview which affected her
still more deeply than this discovery of his moral superiority. The
one great danger which she had always feared had passed away. She no
longer had that wordnetfear wordnetfear of discovery which hitherto had harassed
her; but in the place of this there suddenly arose another wordnetfear--a
wordnetfear which seemed as terrible as the other, which darkened over her
during the course of that wordnetanger till its close, and afterward--such
an evil as she never before could have thought herself capable of
dreading, yet one which she had brought upon herself.

What was that?

His --his --his --this was the  which now
seemed so terrible to her.

For in the course of that interview a sudden change had come over all
her . In  of her later judgment about him, which she had
expressed to Gualtier, there had been in her mind a half