You have, as you have so often reminded me, been my benefactress.

It was not necessary for you to say it, for I had never for an instant forgotten it.

Yet if the king has asked me what I thought, I will not deny to you that I have said that sin is sin, and that he would be a worthier man if he shook off the guilty bonds which held him." "Or exchanged them for others." "For those of duty." "Pah! Your hypocrisy sickens me! If you pretend to be a nun, why are you not where the nuns are?
You would have the best of two worlds-- would you not ?--have all that the court can give, and yet ape the manners of the cloister.

But you need not do it with me! I know you as your inmost heart knows you.

I was honest, and what I did, I did before the world.