She rose. "I suppose appearances were against me; but——"
She held him for a moment with her eyes that measured him; then, as if she had done all that she wanted with him, she gave him back to himself, the finer for her handling.
"It wasn't for appearances you really cared."
THE WRACKHAM MEMOIRS
I
The publishers told you he behaved badly, did they? They didn't know the truth about the "Wrackham Memoirs."