Oh, that she could have believed it of me! But she thinks only of your happiness.

_You_, who would snatch away hers this minute if you could.

She never dreamt I knew you'd said a word." She paused in her impassioned speech, and the tears dropped from the dark blue eyes.

Sarah was crying, and Peter was speechless with awe and dismay.
"I think she would have died, Peter," said Sarah, solemnly, "before she would have told me how brutal you'd been, and how stupid, and how selfish.

I meant you to show her all that.