[He considers her suggestion, but shakes his head.]
I appreciate your intentions here, but no. In the end it'd still be humiliating no matter what - I mean, even if I dress up in something I actually feel comfortable in, the mere act of letting that photo be delivered to her would just make her think she's won!
[He knows that it'll be worse if someone actually manages to overwhelm him, but his stubbornness and pride - pride of his principles rather than his inherent value - are completely in the way of any such compromise.]
I did the right thing, you know? I tried to catch a would-be murderer in the only body I had at my disposal.
...
I might have apologised for not telling her in advance, but she just had to go and completely blow it out of proportion! She made me look ten times worse, and now...
[He trails off in frustration. Maribelle, he feels, put a huge crack in his reputation, whereas no one (or almost no one) would even have known about her presence at the club if she hadn't told the whole network!]
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I appreciate your intentions here, but no. In the end it'd still be humiliating no matter what - I mean, even if I dress up in something I actually feel comfortable in, the mere act of letting that photo be delivered to her would just make her think she's won!
[He knows that it'll be worse if someone actually manages to overwhelm him, but his stubbornness and pride - pride of his principles rather than his inherent value - are completely in the way of any such compromise.]
I did the right thing, you know? I tried to catch a would-be murderer in the only body I had at my disposal.
...
I might have apologised for not telling her in advance, but she just had to go and completely blow it out of proportion! She made me look ten times worse, and now...
[He trails off in frustration. Maribelle, he feels, put a huge crack in his reputation, whereas no one (or almost no one) would even have known about her presence at the club if she hadn't told the whole network!]