He dreaded a disclosure of what might well be regarded as throwing doubt upon his sincerity, the more so that he understood in this moment how justifiable such a doubt would be.

After the merriment of a few minutes ago, this sudden shaking of his nerves was the harder to endure.

It revived with painful intensity the first great agitations of his life.

His way of speaking could not but confirm Beatrice's suspicions.
'We are not exactly strangers to each other,' she said, coldly.
'No, we are not; yet I think I should have forborne to press you on any matter you thought it needless to speak of.' She put on her hat.

Wilfrid felt his anger rising--our natural emotion when we are disagreeably in the wrong, yet cannot condemn the cause which has made us so.