1)"tight rein on her racing mind": she was 1 quickly and kept under 2 , using 3 (rhetorical device) 2)"that her thinking remain calm and reasoned": she 4 think calmly and 5 . The sentence uses 6 (a grammatical term). 3)"as if the discussion.....survival itself": as if they were discussing about sth 7 , not concerned with 8 and 9 . 4)"the role of leadership had fallen to her": it's her 10 to 11 . 5)"her husband now a tense but passive spectator": The Duke now is 12 , incapable of taking 13 in the deal.