She was altogether more inflamed than he had expected, and he would probably understand this better when he should learn what had occurred for her with Chad.
Till then her view of his particular blackness, her clear surprise at his not clutching the pole she held out, must pass as extravagant.

"I leave you to flatter yourself," she returned, "that what you speak of is what YOU'VE beautifully done.

When a thing has been already described in such a lovely way--!" But she caught herself up, and her comment on his description rang out sufficiently loud.

"Do you consider her even an apology for a decent woman ?" Ah there it was at last! She put the matter more crudely than, for his own mixed purposes, he had yet had to do; but essentially it was all one matter.

It was so much--so much; and she treated it, poor lady, as so little.