Step In, Heartened Gavage, Step In, Utterly, Involuntary, Reflexive

He was not so much annoyed at the fact itself, as at the way in which he had met his wife's warrants. There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. Utterly, involuntarily, assumed its habitual, good humor, and therefore, idiotic smile. This idiotic smile, he could not forgive himself. Gatching sight of that smile, Dolly shuddered as though of physical pain,. broke out with her characteristic heat into a flood of cruel words, and rushed out of the room. Since then, she had refused to see her husband.