Sentence:  Then we relapsed into a <WSD>discomfited</WSD> silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To embarrass greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.