"What have you to say as your reason?" she asked, her bitter voice being strangely low—quite that of another woman now. "I have to say that I have been a bad, black-hearted man," he answered. "And that this woman is your victim; and I not less than she."
Ugh. It's too familiar. Bathsheba -- though she views Fanny as her rival -- knows they are both victims of the real enemy. And how convenient that hsi revelation about his behavior comes at their expense
