...of determination

Then I learnt from my aunt a little later that Juliette insisted on her engagement being made public, in spite of what I instinctively felt was Alissa's hope that it would be broken off at once. Advice, injunctions, entreaties, spent themselves in vain against this determination of Juliette's, which seemed fixed like a bar across her brow and like a bandage over her eyes - which seemed to immure her in silence.

[Strait Is The Gate, Gide, A.]