How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
She hurried along the edge of the track, then, crossing the converging lines, came to the stile by the white gates, whence she emerged on the road. Then the fear which had led her shrank. People were walking up to New Brinsley; she saw the lights in the houses; twenty yards further on were the broad windows of the "Prince of Wales," very warm and bright, and the loud voices of men could be heard distinctly. What a fool she had been to imagine that anything had happened to him! He was merely drinking over there at the "Prince of Wales." She faltered. She had never yet been to fetch him, and she never would go. (2.2)
At this moment, Elizabeth has given into her fear enough to go out looking for her husband, but now she's having second thoughts, chastising herself for being a "fool" to believe anything had happened to him. Little does she know…
Quote #5
When they arose, saw him lying in the naïve dignity of death, the women stood arrested in fear and respect. (2.118)
Once the worst has been confirmed—Walter's death has been discovered, and men have brought his body back to the house—the fearful mood intensifies rather than tapering off.
Quote #6
She was afraid with a bottomless fear, so she ministered to him. (2.121)
Elizabeth has a lot of reasons to be even more afraid now that Walter is dead. For one, she's pregnant and has two other kids, so there's that. Also, he's given her a glimpse into the great void that death can represent. Tragically, to her, it's not even that his death represents the end of their relationship so much as it shows her that their entire relationship was a lie. "Bottomless fear" sounds about right for dealing with all that; though we here at Shmoop prefer to think of "bottomless fries" when times get tough.