She wasn't as fine a psychologist as Ellador, and what's more, I think she had a far-descended atavistic trace of more marked femaleness, never apparent till Terry called it out.

But when all is said, it doesn't excuse him.

I hadn't realized to the full Terry's character--I couldn't, being a man.
The position was the same as with us, of course, only with these distinctions.

Alima, a shade more alluring, and several shades less able as a practical psychologist; Terry, a hundredfold more demanding--and proportionately less reasonable.
Things grew strained very soon between them.

I fancy at first, when they were together, in her great hope of parentage and his keen joy of conquest--that Terry was inconsiderate.