In the mean while, you shall know what my fear of you is, in the plainest words I can find.

On the day when I took your hero from you and blighted your life--I am firmly persuaded of it!--you were made the instrument of the retribution that my sins of many years had deserved.

Oh, such things have happened before to-day! One person has, before now, been the means of innocently ripening the growth of evil in another.

You have done that already--and you have more to do yet.

You have still to bring me to the day of discovery, and to the punishment that is my doom.