He reviewed all the evidence that had led her to her conclusions, and he was forced to confess that she was in some measure justified of them.

If she had wronged him, he had wronged her yet more.
For years she had listened to all the poisonous things that were said of him by his enemies--and his arrogance had made him not a few.

She had disregarded all because she loved him; her relations with her brother had become strained on that account, yet now, all this returned to crush her; repentance played its part in her cruel belief that it was by his hand Peter Godolphin had fallen.

It must almost seem to her that in a sense she had been a party to his murder by the headstrong course to which she had kept in loving the man her brother hated.
He saw it now, and was more merciful in judging her.

She had been more than human if she had not felt as he now saw that she must feel, and since reactions are to be measured by the mental exaltations from which they spring, so was it but natural that now she must hate him fiercely whom she had loved wellnigh as fiercely.
It was a heavy cross to bear.