It was plain that he listened with a shuddering repulsion.
"Do you know," he exclaimed, turning upon her, "that she may never recover this?
Such a strain, such a horror! rushed upon so wantonly, so needlessly." "I understand.

You think that I have been to blame?
I do not wonder.

But it is not true--not in this particular case.

And anyway your view is not mine.

Life--and the iron of it--has to be faced, even by women--perhaps, most of all, by women.