If you only knew what I have gone through, and have to go through still, I am sure you would pity me and help me." To say that I was astonished would be a mild description of my feelings.
I was not shocked.

The life which I have led was not one which makes for prudery.

To travel in strange places amongst strange peoples with strange views of their own is to have odd experiences and peculiar adventures now and again; a man without human passions is not the type necessary for an adventurous life, such as I myself have had.

But even a man of passions and experiences can, when he respects a woman, be shocked--even prudish--where his own opinion of her is concerned.

Such must bring to her guarding any generosity which he has, and any self-restraint also.