"I assure you I can appreciate your side of it; and though, looking at it theoretically, it was the highest conduct, demanding the fullest meed of praise, still, in all frankness, there is much to--to--" "Yes." "Much to deplore in it from the social stand-point.

And unhappily, we cannot leave the social stand-point out of our reckoning.

But so far as I may speak for myself, you have done nothing to feel sorry for or be ashamed of." "It is kind of you," she cried, graciously.

"Only it is not true, and you know it is not true.

You know that you acted for the best; you know that I hurt you, insulted you; you know that I behaved like a fish-wife, and you do know that I disgusted you--" "No, no!" He raised his hand as though to ward from her the blows she dealt herself.
"But yes, yes.