'Couldn't you have found some other example ?' There was no reply.
'So,' he proceeded, 'Miss Nunn regards me as a proved scoundrel ?' 'I never told her the story.

I made known the general grounds of my dissatisfaction with you, that was all.' 'Come, that's something.

I'm glad you didn't amuse her with that unedifying bit of fiction.' 'Fiction ?' 'Yes, fiction,' said Everard bluntly.

'I am not going into details; the thing's over and done with, and I chose my course at the time.

But it's as well to let you know that my behaviour was grossly misrepresented.
In using me to point a moral you were grievously astray.