human
If he is young, she thought,
gpt
--it will be perceived that, although she knew so much mathematics, she was really very ignorant of the opposite sex, not to know that a young man likes nothing so much as the opening of his mind to a young lady.
human
If he is old, he will be more humiliated still --as if any man at any age was ever humiliated by confessing himself to a woman.
gpt
If he is a proud man, he will never forgive me. Indeed, I am sure that he can never forgive me, whatever kind of man he is. But I can do no more than tell him I am sorry. If he will not forgive me then, what more can I say? Oh, if he should be vindictive!