On hearing it, he felt come upon him with tenfold intensity that strange feeling of loathing of someone.

But at the same time, he felt that the turning-point he had been longing for had come now; that it was impossible to go on concealing things from her husband, and it was inevitable in one way or another that they should soon put an end to their unnatural position.

But, besides that, her emotion physically affected him in the same way.