Listen." Why should I repeat that terrible disclosure?
why harrow my soul with going back over that dark path?
Let me try to forget that such sins, such wrongs, such revenges, ever stained a human life.

I was so young, so innocent, so ignorant.

It was a strange misfortune that I should have had to know that which aged and changed me so.

But he was right in saying that I had to know it.

My life was bound involuntarily to his by my love, and what concerned him was my fate.