'So humiliating'
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Não podia porém prolongar por mais tempo aquella situação para ella tão humilhante,
She could not, however, prolong any longer that situation, so humiliating for her,
The pretence of satisfaction is unsustainable because the situation itself is 'tão humilhante' — so humiliating: a wife reduced to petitioning her own husband for a decency he flatly withholds. Her humiliation is not that he refuses, but that she must keep asking. Dignity forces the matter back open.
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