I've had this line a couple of times recently for two different situations. Having searched both the forums and the Wiki for possible meanings and found quite a few conflicting opinions, I thought people in a similar position may find it useful to know how things worked out with these.
Both situations involved a conflict with another person (the inferior person mentioned in Wilhelm's commentary?) and felt that I was very much in the right. I had a choice of going head to head with the person and blowing up the issue into a fight ("powerful in the cheekbones"?) or...well, this is where I got confused because the whole "walking alone in the rain" thing didn't seem to make any sense. Then I realised that in both cases it meant basically to humour the other person, even though they were blatantly wrong. Not to charge in guns blazing, but to keep hold of my objective yet let things play out. In both cases there were "people murmuring" (both internally and externally) about this decision, but as things played out, this does seem to have been the right thing to do under the circumstances. Being fighty would have been far worse.
Both situations involved a conflict with another person (the inferior person mentioned in Wilhelm's commentary?) and felt that I was very much in the right. I had a choice of going head to head with the person and blowing up the issue into a fight ("powerful in the cheekbones"?) or...well, this is where I got confused because the whole "walking alone in the rain" thing didn't seem to make any sense. Then I realised that in both cases it meant basically to humour the other person, even though they were blatantly wrong. Not to charge in guns blazing, but to keep hold of my objective yet let things play out. In both cases there were "people murmuring" (both internally and externally) about this decision, but as things played out, this does seem to have been the right thing to do under the circumstances. Being fighty would have been far worse.