Nothing in his bald statement of his marriage to her mother and the subsequent desertion had evoked the reproach, the recrimination, for which he had steeled himself when she entered the room.

He felt his hold upon the interview lessening.

He had believed himself expert in calculating effects, yet apparently she had heard his announcement, delivered with a brutal directness, without emotion.
"This isn't quite all, Mr.Bassett," Sylvia began after a moment.

"You have offered me reparation, or what you called by that name.

You can't deny that I have a right to be satisfied with that reparation." "Certainly; anything in reason.