But I am honestly glad to be quit of him, and take some satisfaction in remembering that I detested the fellow from the first.

He had too much cleverness with his bad style, or, if you prefer it, was sufficiently like a gentleman to be dangerous.

Pah! For his particular offence, I would have had the old hulks maintained in the Hamoaze, with all their severities; as it is, the posturer may find Dartmoor pretty stiff, but will yet have the consolation of herding with his betters." Strangely enough this speech did more to fix Dorothea's resolve than all she had read or heard of the rigours of the war-prison.

Gently reared though she was, physical suffering seemed to her less intolerable than to be unjustly held in this extreme of scorn..
This was the deeper wrong; and putting herself in her lover's place, feeling with his feelings, she knew it to be by far the deeper.

In Dartmoor he shared the sufferings of men unfortunate but not despicable, punished for fighting in their country's cause.