But the reasoning went on: If he really loved, and told her so, wherein was the self-sacrifice?
She had reproached him with coming to her with his suit hotfoot upon his knowledge of her shameful proffer of herself to another man; of her refusal by him.

Could he have been so blind as not to have seen, as she did, the shameful aspect of his impulsive act?
Surely, if he had thought, he must have seen!.

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And he must have thought; there had been time for it.