On the other hand, if he disliked the man for whom she now hardly hid her liking, he was not just then ready to go to extremes concerning him.
"He was very anxious," she went on, "that you should know just how it was.

He thinks everything of your judgment and--and--opinion." The general made a consenting noise in his throat.

"He said that he did not wish me to 'whitewash' him to you.

He didn't think he had done right; he didn't excuse himself, or ask you to excuse him unless you could from the stand-point of a gentleman." The general made a less consenting noise in his throat, and asked, "How do you look at it, yourself, Agatha ?" "I don't believe I quite understand it; but Mrs.March--" "Oh, Mrs.March!" the general snorted.
"-- says that Mr.March does not think so badly of it as Mr.Burnamy does." "I doubt it.

At any rate, I understood March quite differently." "She says that he thinks he behaved very nobly afterwards when Mr.
Stoller wanted him to help him put a false complexion on it; that it was all the more difficult for him to do right then, because of his remorse for what he had done before." As she spoke on she had become more eager.
"There's something in that," the general admitted, with a candor that he made the most of both to himself and to her.