If you didn't know that you have learned it now.

You hurt me deliberately.

I told you a plain truth very bluntly.

It is for you to consider the situation." But she could not speak; anger, humiliation, shame, held her tongue-tied.

The instinctive revolt at the vague horror--the monstrous, meaningless threat--nothing could force words from her to repudiate, to deny what he had dared to utter.
Except as the effrontery of brutality, except as a formless menace born of his anger, the reason he flung at her for his marrying her conveyed nothing to her in its grotesque impossibility.