He had not understood, he said, that I was becoming attached to her, but when he saw with his own eyes that it was really so, and that she might be taken away from him, it gave him such a shock that for a time he was not responsible for what he said or did.
Nie spostrzegł mojej skłonności ku Beryl, a gdy ją ujrzał w moich objęciach, ogarnął go taki gniew samolubny, że stracił przytomność i nie odpowiada za swoje słowa i czyny.