And you know it! "Can you live on terms of mutual confidence and mutual esteem with me when I have committed this fraud, and when I stand toward you in this position?
It was possible for you to live with me happily while you were in ignorance of the truth.

It is _not_ possible, now you know all.
"No! the one atonement I can make is--to leave you.

Your one chance of future happiness is to be disassociated, at once and forever, from my dishonored life.

I love you, Valeria--truly, devotedly, passionately.
But the specter of the poisoned woman rises between us.

It makes no difference that I am innocent even of the thought of harming my first wife.