His quietly authoritative tone had made Mavis accept the thing not only easily but without a doubt or question, and he thought remorsefully that, except for his sneaking, cowardly delay, all this might have occurred a month ago.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
"I said a lot, too," replied Dorn, remorsefully.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
"We ought not to have gone to the Paches'," cried Athena remorsefully.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes