He understands.

That's why he sits there at home and chuckles.

I hope you will not mind my saying to you that he considers me a very lucky person." "Lucky ?" said she, momentarily off her guard.
"If you care to hear exactly how he puts it, he says I'm _damned_ lucky, Mrs.Tresslyn.Of course, you are not to assume that I agree with him.

If I thought all this was Anne's doing and not yours, I should say that I am lucky, but I can't believe--good heavens, I will not believe that she could do such a thing! A young, beautiful, happy girl voluntarily--oh, it is unspeakable! She is being driven into it, she is being sacrificed to--" "Just one moment, Braden," interrupted Mrs.Tresslyn, curtly.

"I may as well set you quite straight in the matter.