This feeling was aggravated by his being unable to tell her plainly the cause of his anger.

If he had told her directly what he was thinking, he would have said: "In that dress, with a princess only too well known to everyone, to show yourself at the theater is equivalent not merely to acknowledging your position as a fallen woman, but is flinging down a challenge to society, that is to say, cutting yourself off from it forever.

" He could not say that to her.

" But how can she fail to see it, and what is going on in her?" he said to himself.