to vindicate someone's honor

I'll get the bottles. I'm the one who stuck them out there. And you're a freeze baby, while I'm clearly not.

Yet what was it she had in mind, what did she wish to make of him beyond what she had already made, a patient, punctilious host, mindful that she had originally arrived much as a stranger, arrived not at all deliberately or yearningly invited?—so that one positively had her possible susceptibilities the MORE on one’s conscience.

Bonnie partner with Scottish flower (5) [as a clue for CLYDE]