As it’s too late, I quit.

[…] a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.

“Girls like Phyllis Mills are an open book to me. For four years I was, if you remember, the proprietor and editress of a weekly paper for women.” She was alluding to the periodical entitled Milady's Boudoir […]

Here, he thought, is a man in need of a thorough regruntling job.