Covering her face with her hands she sank back on the seat crying silently bitter tears that seemed to scald her eyes and her cheeks as they ran.
Leonard was angry.

When it began to dawn upon him what was the purpose of Stephen's speech, he had been shocked.

Young men are so easily shocked by breaches of convention made by women they respect! And his pride was hurt.

Why should he have been placed in such a ridiculous position! He did not love Stephen in that way; and she should have known it.

He liked her and all that sort of thing; but what right had she to assume that he loved her?
All the weakness of his moral nature came out in his petulance.