In less than three years you had entirely ruined me from every point of view.
After my terrible sentence, when the prison dress was on me, and the prison house closed, I sat amidst the ruins of my wonderful life, crushed by anguish, bewildered with terror, dazed through pain.

But I would not hate you.

Every day I said to myself, "I must keep love in my heart to-day, else how shall I live through the day ?" I reminded myself that you meant no evil to me at any rate....
It all flashed across me, and I remember that for the first and last time in my entire prison life, I laughed.

In that laugh was all the scorn of all the world.

Prince Fleur de lys! I saw that nothing that had happened had made you realise a single thing.