consternating

Updated: May 25, 2025

So the chance to put his serviceability to the proof in consternating circumstances like these, afforded her a subtle satisfaction. He'd brought it upon himself, hadn't he? At least it was he and no other who had put Mary up to the part she had played. None of this, of course, came to the surface at all in the scene between them.

Henry Kitchell Webster - Mary Wollaston