"You blind fool!" Collingwood snarled out in a fury of indignation, "don't you see what you are doing? You are playing my game, not your own. I have tried to win, I have treated her pretty badly, but I don't want to win her now. Don't you see, man, if you call in the court to break her wings you'll only drive her to me?"
"Don't you see, man, if you call in the court to break her wings, you'll only drive her to me!"
"Yes," Admaston answered with a bitter sneer, "I see—and you don't seem very anxious to go through with it."
Collingwood looked at him for a moment, trembling with the desire to fly at his throat. He restrained himself, however, with a tremendous effort, and with an inarticulate growl of rage turned and left the room.
Peggy came timidly towards her husband. "George, you are not going to send me away?" she said.
Admaston covered his face with his hands. "My God! Peggy, you lied to me," he said in a broken voice. "A lie—a lie on your lips! Oh, Peggy, Peggy, what have I done to you?"