"And I will tell why you lie!" Moore did not show the shame and guilt that should have been natural with his confession.

But he showed an agony of distress.

His hand sought Wade and dragged at him.
It did not need this mute appeal to tell Wade that in another moment Columbine would have flung the shameful truth into the face of Jack Belllounds.

She was rising to that.

She was terrible and beautiful to see.
"Collie," said Wade, with that voice he knew had strange power over her, with a clasp of her outflung hand, "no more! This is a man's game.