Since Vallombreuse was infamous in his conduct, you have done well to kill him.

You have acted like a true gentleman, which I am assured that you are, in chivalrously protecting weakness, innocence and virtue.

You are nobly in the right.

That my daughter's honour has been preserved unstained, I owe to you--and it compensates me for the loss of my son--at least my reason tells me that it should do so; but the father's heart rebels, and unjust ideas of revenge might arise, which I should find it difficult to conquer and set at rest.

Therefore you had better go your way now, and whatever the result may be I will not pursue or molest you.