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Stroman went on the IL retractive to June 7.

As Michael Proeve at University of Adelaide and Steven Tudor at La Trobe University write in their book, "Remorse: Psychological and Jurisprudential Perspectives": these are “retractive” emotions, which means they distance themselves from something that is associated with the self.

Remorse belongs to a class of “retractive emotions,” such as guilt, shame, regret and contrition.

But at the retractive moment he ran plump into the Major, stalking grandly along the tile-paved walk and smoking a war-time cheroot of preposterous length.