Crossword-Solution: PENITENTLY 10 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Something seemed to tell him that later, in a foreign land, he would remember it lovingly and penitently.

She talked me to sleep at last, and then I was awakened by a slight sound at the door, for which she begged my pardon as she crept penitently into bed; but it seems that when I could no longer confirm her belief that the long-lost was really here—under the same roof—she had begun to fear lest it was only a waking dream of hers; that there never had been a Peter sitting by her all that blessed evening—but that the real Peter lay dead far away beneath some wild sea-wave, or under some strange eastern tree.

What a wrong I had done to them both in my thoughts! I turned the photograph, sadly and penitently, to examine the portraits again with a kinder and truer appreciation of them.

With his sense of the duty he owed to his wife penitently present to his mind, the memory of that fatal kiss still left its vivid impression on him.

Then she broke in penitently, trying to pull his hands away from his hot face: “Never mind! I know you didn't mean anything.