How wretchedly I have been deceived in you!" From upbraiding, he fell to lamentation.

His life was wrecked; he had lost his ideals; and all through her unworthiness.

Then, as Madeline was still unrelenting, he began to humble himself.

He confessed his levity; he had not considered the risk he ran of losing her respect; all he had done was in pique at her treatment of him.

And in the end he implored her forgiveness, besought her to restore him to life by accepting his unqualified submission.