Through her mind it swept, that her fainting was some cause of it.

She could not really believe that that could have brought so much abhorrence to his mind; yet she tried it.

To say anything, to propose any cause, she struggled for that in order to know the why.
"It was because I fainted ?" she said quickly.

"You hate a woman to be weak; I know I was weak; you hate scenes of that sort.

Do you think I can't understand it ?" She worked herself into the belief that this was the reason, and her spirit of defence rose with it.