I did not want any external influence in my life.

You know yourself, Harry, how independent I am by nature.

I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
Then--but I don't know how to explain it to you.

Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life.

I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.