"But you have not wronged any one, or spoiled their lives," said Gwendolen, hastily. "It is only others who have wronged _you_."
Deronda colored slightly, but said immediately--"I suppose our keen feeling for ourselves might end in giving us a keen feeling for others, if, when we are suffering acutely, we were to consider that others go through the same sharp experience. That is a sort of remorse before commission. Can't you understand that?"

"But you have not wronged anyone, or spoiled their lives," said Gwendolen, hastily. "It is only others who have wronged you. 