She wished to have me know exactly how it happened, no matter what I might think of her.
"You are a nobleman, count," she said to me at last, "and I can trust you as one of my own people, I am sure.

Yes, I know: you have been unfortunate, and are now a professor.

But that does not change the blood.

I can trust you.

You need not tell him I came, unless you wish it.