"You don't play your game very well, and it's just possible that, even now, with all the cards in your hands, you will throw them away as you did in the past.

I wish that--" Seeing Mona's agitation changing to choler, the Young Doctor intervened.
He did not know Kitty was purposely stinging Crozier's unhappy little consort, so that she should be put upon her mettle to do the thing without bungling.
"You can trust Mrs.Crozier to act carefully; but what exactly do you mean?
I judge that Mrs.Crozier does not see more distinctly than I do," he remarked inquiringly to Kitty, and with admonishment in tone and emphasis.
"No, I do not understand quite--will you explain ?" interposed Mona with inner resentment at being managed, but feeling that she could not do without Kitty even if she would.
"As I said," continued Kitty, "I will open that letter, and you will put in another letter and these bank-notes; and when he repeats what he said about the way you felt and wrote when he broke his pledge, you can blaze up and tell him to open the letter.

Then he will be so sorry that he'll get down on his knees, and you will be happy ever after." "But it will be a fraud, and dishonest and dishonourable," protested Mona.
Kitty almost sniffed, but she was too agitated to be scornful.

"Just leave that to me, please.

It won't make me a bit more dishonourable to open the letter again--I've opened it once, and I don't feel any the worse for it.