How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
…of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil. Leonard was driven straight through its torments and emerged pure, but enfeebled--a better man, who would never lose control of himself again, but also a smaller, who had less to control. Nor did purity mean peace. The use of the knife can become a habit as hard to shake off as passion itself, and Leonard continued to start with a cry out of dreams. (41.2)
Leonard's guilt over the incident with Helen changes him forever (in a notable contrast to Mr. Wilcox, who never seems to feel real remorse about his dodgy past). We see that Leonard is ultimately "a better man," but at what cost? And what can it possibly gain for him?
Quote #11
The expedition to Shropshire crippled the Basts permanently. Helen in her flight forgot to settle the hotel bill, and took their return tickets away with her; they had to pawn Jacky's bangles to get home, and the smash came a few days afterwards. It is true that Helen offered him five thousand pounds, but such a sum meant nothing to him. He could not see that the girl was desperately righting herself, and trying to save something out of the disaster, if it was only five thousand pounds. But he had to live somehow. He turned to his family, and degraded himself to a professional beggar. There was nothing else for him to do. (40.5)
This is just another case of Helen hypocritically taking her own wealth for granted; ironically, she's the one who deals the Basts the final killing blow by "crippling" them with the cost of the Shropshire misadventure.