She had an idea that Felix would not come back to her after the treatment he had received;--and a further idea that if he did come he was not, as she phrased it to herself, "of much account." She certainly did not like him the better for having been beaten, though, at the time, she had been disposed to take his part. 
She had an idea that Felix would not come back to her after that beating - and she certainly did not like him the better for having been beaten. 