Your choosing to stand by the consequences of Burnamy's wrong doesn't undo it.

As I understand, you don't pardon it--" Stoller gulped and did not answer at once.

Then he said, "I stand by what I done.

I'm not going to let him say I turned him down for doing what I told him to, because I hadn't the sense to know what I was about." "Ah, I don't think it's a thing he'll like to speak of in any case," said March.
Stoller left him, at the corner they had reached, as abruptly as he had joined him, and March hurried back to his wife, and told her what had just passed between him and Stoller.
She broke out, "Well, I am surprised at you, my dear! You have always accused me of suspecting people, and attributing bad motives; and here you've refused even to give the poor man the benefit of the doubt.

He merely wanted to save his savage pride with you, and that's all he wants to do with Burnamy.