Oh its always the same she sighed if you want men to behave well to you you must be beastly to them if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

He did not care if she was heartless vicious and vulgar stupid and grasping he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat but it was a defeat better than many victories.