"Am I going to understand why anyone would consider his honor mortally insulted or Carissa's value diminished by the existence of an untrue rumor if you try to explain that using only two sentences?"

"Am I going to understand why anyone would consider his reputation shattered, or Carissa's value diminished by the existence of an untrue rumor, if you try to explain that using only two sentences?"

"Am I going to understand why anyone would consider his own reputation shattered by the mere existence of an untrue rumor that somebody who was not him was sleeping with somebody else who was not him, if you try to explain that using only two sentences?"

"Am I going to understand why anyone would consider his own reputation shattered by the mere existence of an untrue rumor that somebody who was not him was sleeping with somebody else who was not him, or why the rumor affects Carissa's attractiveness to him independently of the truth of the rumor, if you try to explain that using only two sentences?"