Argument founded on the length of journey to Birmingham as compared with the journey to Brighton she refused to be drawn into.

Her feelings had been too deeply wounded to permit of descent into detail.
But the sinner, confessing his fault, is entitled to forgiveness, and, having put him back into his proper place, she let him kiss her hand.

She even went further and let him ask her out to dinner.

As the result of her failure to reform Mrs.Phillips she was feeling dissatisfied with herself.

It was an unpleasant sensation and somewhat new to her experience.