I could easily have killed you just now, and I wished to." "I wonder why you did not!" exclaimed Aurora, rather scornfully.
"I thought with myself thus: 'If I kill her, I shall always have the satisfaction of it as long as I live.

This is the truth.

But I shall go to prison for many years and shall not see him again, therefore I will not do it.

Besides, it will not please him.

If it would make him happy I would kill her, even if I were to go to the galleys for it.