He probably realized to a greater extent than any of them what had taken place.

It was inconceivable to him that it had taken place, that he himself had been such a fool.

He felt like one who has met with some utterly unexplainable and unaccountable accident.

He felt as he had done once when, younger, he had stuck his own knife, with which he was whittling, into his eye, to the possible loss of it.

It seemed to him as if something had taken place without his volition.