Give me my freedom to go to the other woman, and to train for the foot-race--that's what I want.

_They_ injured?
Confusion to them both! It's I who am injured by them.

They are the worst enemies I have! They stand in my way.
How to be rid of them?
There was the difficulty.

He had made up his mind to be rid of them that day.

How was he to begin?
There was no picking a quarrel with Arnold, and so beginning with _him._ This course of proceeding, in Arnold's position toward Blanche, would lead to a scandal at the outset--a scandal which would stand in the way of his making the right impression on Mrs.Glenarm.The woman--lonely and friendless, with her sex and her position both against her if _she_ tried to make a scandal of it--the woman was the one to begin with.
Settle it at once and forever with Anne; and leave Arnold to hear of it and deal with it, sooner or later, no matter which.
How was he to break it to her before the day was out?
By going to the inn and openly addressing her to her face as Mrs.Arnold Brinkworth?
No! He had had enough, at Windygates, of meeting her face to face.