Can’t justify his immorality, but that had to be a very serious temptation.
Temptation is serious by it's very meaning. But these were both West Point graduates who had its Honor Code driven into them during their respective four years there.
"We will not lie, cheat or steal; nor tolerate those among us who do."
It once meant what it said...at least to me.
Then, if nothing else, there should have been her children to consider. That would have been enough to stop me cold. But not him. He effed them over just as he effed her.
An effer all around. His sordid history. And hence unfortuately, ours.