This I could have borne had I been able to feel that I was doing good, but, alas! the only effect of my attempts has been to turn workers into idlers, contented men into greedy parasites, and, worst of all, true, pure women into deceivers and hypocrites.

If this is the effect of my interference on a small scale, I cannot hope for anything better were I to carry out the plans which we have so often discussed.

The schemes of my life have all turned to nothing.

For myself, you shall never see me again.

I shall go back to the student life from which I emerged.
There, at least, if I can do little good, I can do no harm.