"Honor and benefit! Your assurances come somewhat late in the day.

You forget that on the pretext of insanity, I was thrown into a dungeon.

Yes, it was a pretext; for my reason has never left me, even for an hour, as you can see from what I have accomplished since I am free." "Free! Do you imagine you are free, Thomas Roch?
Are you not more closely confined within the walls of this cavern than you ever were at Healthful House ?" "A man who is in his own home," he replies angrily, "goes out as he likes and when he likes.

I have only to say the word and all the doors will open before me.

This place is mine.