The Captives

Martin walked into the street with a confused sense of triumph and defeat, that confusion that comes to all sensitive men at the moment when they are stepping, against their will, from one set of conditions into another. He had gone into that house, only half an hour ago, determined to leave Maggie for ever–for his good and hers. He came back into the street realising that he was now, perhaps for the first time, quite definitely involved in some relation with her.