Better let the matter drop.
"This was good common sense.

But he was impressed.
"'Sounds a terrible affair, Captain Davidson.' "'Aye, terrible enough,' agreed the remorseful Davidson.

But the most terrible thing for him, though he didn't know it yet then, was that his wife's silly brain was slowly coming to the conclusion that Tony was Davidson's child, and that he had invented that lame story to introduce him into her pure home in defiance of decency, of virtue--of her most sacred feelings.
"Davidson was aware of some constraint in his domestic relations.

But at the best of times she was not demonstrative; and perhaps that very coldness was part of her charm in the placid Davidson's eyes.

Women are loved for all sorts of reasons and even for characteristics which one would think repellent.