I had let him down not long before.

[Fwvo]

Someone please tell me the meaning of the following line. Source "In the Forests of the Darkness" by John Simpson

That was one reason to feel guilty. The other was that I had let him down badly not long before.

 

[Rover_KE]

Click here for a start.

Ask again if that doesn't help.

 

[teechar]

Which part do you not understand?
- Let someone down. [click here]
- not long before = in the recent past.

 

[emsr2d2]

Can someone please tell me the meaning of the following line?

That was one reason to feel guilty. The other was that I had let him down badly not long before.

Source: "In the Forests of the Darkness" by John Simpson

Note my corrections above. It's usual to put the source after the quote.

 

[Tdol]

There were a couple of reasons to feel guilty- the first has been mentioned earlier in the text, probably in the previous sentence, and the second is that he or she had disappointed the person recently.