sorriness

An odd feeling of sorriness for her step-mother came over Joan.

His voice was thick with sorriness, and he could hardly get the words out.

And her sorriness held her heart warm, in the glow of giving comfort.

Perhaps if I told him I knew how wicked I was, the sorriness would come later.

But she did not tell them of the sorriness of her situation: it might have brought reproach upon him.