She will never take your view that it was a justifiable piece of revenge; she will only see in it a cruel and dastardly deception, practised on a woman whose only fault was that, not loving, she discovered her mistake in time.

A man should rejoice when a woman draws back from an engagement, reflecting what his life might have been had she not done so.
But Barker's face was sickly with disappointment as he drove away, and he could hardly collect himself enough to determine what was best to be done.

However, after a time he came to the conclusion that a letter must be written of humble apology, accompanied by a few very expensive flowers, and followed after a week's interval by a visit.

She could not mean to break off all acquaintance with him for so slight a cause.

She would relent and see him again, and then he would put over on the other tack.