I really do not see that he could have done anything else.

It was a plain and simple issue, and she herself had protested that the issue was plain and simple.
And then the door opened abruptly and Sir Terence came in.

Nor did he discreetly withdraw as a man of feeling should have done before the intimate and touching spectacle that met his eyes.

On the contrary, he remained like the infernal marplot that he intended to be.
"Very proper," he sneered.

"Very fit and proper that he should put right in the eyes of the world the reputation you have damaged for his sake, Sylvia.