She felt a 'pang of' guilt for not offering to help.
hunger 'pangs'
(..) For who would bear the whips and scams of time... The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely... The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay... The insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes... ...when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin (..)2015 Hamlet