It was as though he had been delivered into the most horrible and shameful of traps.

He pushed her from him; he struggled fiercely on his feet.

He regarded her with fiery eyes.
"It isn't--I wasn't--you oughtn't to have come in.

You needn't imagine----" He burst from the room.

A shameful, horrible experience.
But it cannot be denied that he was ashamed afterwards.