" I don't expect you to understand me, my feelings, as anyone who loved me might, but simple delicacy I did expect," she said.

And he had actually flushed with vexation, and had said something unpleasant.

She could not recall her answer, but at that point, with an unmistakable desire to wound her too, he had said: "I feel no interest in your infatuation over this girl, that's true, because I see it's unnatural.