"No strong man accepts a woman on any other terms," she said.
The man accepted the wisdom of that and went outside to get some air.
The young man accepted it as no less than his due.
Once men accepted it, as they'd had to pretty quickly in the war, they got along great with him.
A man of a century ago, perhaps, would not have accepted them.
Whether such a man will accept these statements, I do not know.
"It is the other conditions which no man of honor could accept."
A cold statement of fact which the man accepted for what it was.
If a man could not accept the implications of training, he might be better off dead.
He just didn't understand that there were some things in life a man simply should not accept.