No, the words meant absolutely nothing to her now. She could not
even get an echo of her old emotion. But she could remember going
cold with
excitement, and doing her hair in a kind of ecstasy (now the old
feeling began to come back to her, as she took out her hairpins, laid
them on the dressing-table, began to do her hair), with the rooks
flaunting up and down in the pink evening light, and dressing, and
going downstairs, and feeling as she crossed the hall "if it were now
to die ‘twere now to be most happy." That was her feeling-Othello’s
feeling, and she felt it, she was convinced, as strongly as
Shakespeare meant Othello to feel it, all because she was coming down
to dinner in a white frock to meet Sally
Seton!!