He had not assisted at the nauseating spectacle of a woman morally turning herself inside out in three volumes and an interview.
No, this man respected women still; and he paid them an honor which, thank Heaven, most of them still deserve.

He treated them as men in the sense that he considered them to be under the same code of right and wrong, of good and evil.
He did not understand what Etta meant when she told him to be careful.
He did not know that the modern social code is like the Spanish grammar--there are so many exceptions that the rules are hardly worth noting.

And one of our most notorious modern exceptions is the married woman who is pleased to hold herself excused because outsiders tell her that her husband does not understand her.
"I do not think," said Paul judicially, "that you can have cared very much whether I loved you or not.

When you married me you knew that I was the promoter of the Charity League; I almost told you.

I told you so much that, with your knowledge, you must have been aware of the fact that I was heavily interested in the undertaking which you betrayed.