He might have been able to win free with her.

Perhaps between the two of them, they could manage to win free!

But before that hour we may have won free.

He wanted to pull out, to escape, to win free, but couldn't.

When we've only just snatched our lives back to us and won free?

You won free too soon, so now it must be in your power to prevail.

He took another sip and let his smile win free.

Only then did she dare to hope that they might win free.

Neither could survive in his own society anymore, even if they somehow won free.

And if she did win free, what would she do alone on the street?