a necessary quality , to be sure , for a missionary 's wife being dragged the length of the globe , yet it felt uncivilized to be subjecting her to the violence of the day 's heat for so little evident use ; she did not complain , but she could not have enjoyed being packed aboard a dragon , however well she concealed her fears , and she wore a high-necked gown with sleeves to the wrist , of dark fabric , while the sun beat so ferociously that it glowed even through the leather of the tent .