Arrived at Haworth the full recoil came. She had won through a great ordeal, and she knew that surrounded by his wife and family,[77] comforted by piety and the knowledge of his happy issue from involution in disastrous complications, M. Héger would resume tranquilly his accustomed course of life. To Charlotte Brontë, who by the showing of all evidence was initially responsible for a morally gratifying outcome of their dangerous attachment, this was a galling picture. Knowing nothing of the ecstatic delights of the pietist in the sacrificial sense of M. Héger, who was a devoted member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and, as he is made to describe himself in _Villette_, "a sort of lay Jesuit," she became just a woman living in the world of her primal nature and conceiving but that she had lost. Miss Rigby--afterwards Lady Eastlake--who wrote the remarkable article on _Jane Eyre_ in _The Quarterly Review_ of 1849, perceived with a flash of real insight and the instinct of womanhood that Currer Bell's pen had presented ungarbed, vital relations of some man and woman identical in both _Wuthering Heights_ and _Jane Eyre_. The circumstances were full difficult for the reviewer; she was irritated and encompassed. _Wuthering Heights_, which so soon had followed the appearance of _Jane Eyre_, she suddenly recognized as the very storm-centre of this literary tornado of passionate declamation; and she chastised that work in the name of _Jane Eyre_, for she could not know all the cruel truth, and she feared to popularize _Wuthering Heights_. Although Miss Rigby wrote:--"It is true Jane does right, and exerts great moral strength," she added, "but it is the strength of a mere heathenish mind which is a law unto itself." And later, turning upon _Wuthering Heights_ she says with a final vehemency, and most sensationally:-- There can be no interest attached to the writer of _Wuthering Heights_--a novel succeeding _Jane Eyre_ ... and purporting [!] to be written by Ellis Bell--unless it were for the sake of a more individual reprobation. For though there is a decided family likeness between the two [!], yet the aspect of the Jane and Rochester animals in their native state as Catherine and Heathcliffe [!], is abominably pagan.