I answered my husband's letter.

My reply to him shall appear in these pages.

It will show, in some degree, what effect (of the lasting sort) his desertion of me produced on my mind.

It will also reveal the motives that sustained me, the hopes that animated me, in the new and strange life which my next chapters must describe.
I was removed from the hotel in the care of my fatherly old friend, Benjamin.

A bedroom was prepared for me in his little villa.