She had no more of the logician in her composition than Thresk had of the hero.

He had committed under a great stress of emotion and sympathy what the whole experience and method of his life told him was one of the worst of crimes.

And now that its object was achieved, and Stella Ballantyne free, he was in the mood to see only the harm which he had done to the majesty of the law; he was uneasy; he was not troubled by the thought that discovery would absolutely ruin him.
That indeed did not enter into his thoughts.

But he could not but make a picture of himself in the robe of a King's Counsel, claiming sternly the anger of the Law against some other man who should have done just what he had done, no more and no less.

And so when Mrs.Repton's door was finally closed upon him, and no message was given to him from the woman he had saved, he was at once human and unheroic enough to visit a little of his resentment upon her.