Grovington: Shame
Norrington sighed, loosening his cravat. Elizabeth lied to him. She turned down his proposal for a life with the blacksmith. The whole display was a disaster. So, he'd lost his fiancé. That barely bothered him. The public humiliation barely unsettled him either. What did bother him was that Theo had been missing. James realized that the only person who had truly suffered through this whole ordeal had been the young officer Groves. James was ashamed. He destroyed the trust and love that had existed between himself and Theodore. James leaned over his desk, his face resting in his shaking hands.