Now he might enjoy his humiliation.

It did not occur to him that it might be simple "cussedness," to borrow an energetic American term, or that she had not really changed, but was angry with him for some reason which she did not choose to show.

It is difficult to weigh the motives of women in the scales of male experience, and many other men besides Geoffrey have been forced to give up the attempt and to console themselves with the reflection that the inexplicable is generally not worth understanding.
Yes, probably it would be the same case over again.

And yet, and yet--was Beatrice of that class?
Had she not too much of a man's straightforwardness of aim to permit her to play such tricks?
In the bottom of his soul he thought that she had, but he would not admit it to himself.

The fact of the matter was that, half unknowingly, he was trying to drug his conscience.