"But you found only some guests of Mr. Copplestone's, who had been invited to dinner?"
"Yes."
"Was there anything strange about the room?"
"It was decorated in an extraordinary manner."
"I think you made some remark about the decorations?"
"Perhaps I did. I had been told something of Mr. Copplestone's eccentricities, and I inferred that the engagement was an accomplished fact, and that the decorations had been put up in celebration of it."
"Do you remember saying anything else in the room?"
"I said that rather than allow Miss Manderson to be engaged to George Copplestone, I would tear her to pieces with my own hands."
"And utterly destroy her?"