No such shock had ever before come into her life.

This man, of whom she had made a hero, a trickster and a liar! It seemed as if the world were gone! There was a meeting and an explanation, and she learned how wrong she had been, in one way.
He put the case earnestly and desperately.

He would not yield her.

He knew she loved him, and he knew she was too good and wise to suffer forever herself or let him suffer because, in society, there were blunders.

There was a way out--a clean, right way--and they must take it.