They will torture me some day.
Do your best to get me out of here and I will tell you everything.

But," she wrote, "I fear you can never secure my release.

I am confined here on a life sentence." "But you are English, and if you have had no trial I can complain to our Ambassador." "No, I am a Russian subject.

I was born in Russia, and went to England when I was a girl." That altered the case entirely.

As a subject of the Czar in her own country she was amenable to that disgraceful blot upon civilization that allows a person to be consigned to prison at the will of a high official, without trial or without being afforded any opportunity of appeal.