18/23 But, of course, there's no extenuation for deception. Therefore, if you insist on putting it that way--if--if it has made the whole thing intolerable to you, it seems to me that perhaps I ought, don't you know, to release you from your obligations----" She looked at him. She knew that he had understood the meaning and the depth of her repugnance. She did not know that such understanding is rare in the circumstances, nor could she see that in itself it was a revelation of a certain capacity for the "goodness" she had once believed in. But she did see that she was being treated with a delicacy and consideration she had not expected of this man with the strange devil. |