You foresee the end of it.

At Paddington Station the girl and I went off together, and she didn't get to her sister's till the evening.
'Of course I take it for granted that you believe my account of the matter.

Miss Drake was by no means the spiritual young person that Mrs.
Goodall thought her, or hoped to make her; plainly, she was a reprobate of experience.

This, you will say, doesn't alter the fact that I also behaved like a reprobate.

No; from the moralist's point of view I was to blame.