I was villain enough, but do not think I am unpunished.
"I am an outlaw from my country.

I am morally a transported felon.

Only in this no-man's land am I a free man; let me but step across the border and I am worth a little fortune to the man who takes me.

And we have had a hard time here, though not so hard as I deserved; and the hardest part of all..." But you must guess the hardest part: for the letter ended as it began, with sudden talk of his inner life, and tentative inquiry after mine.

In its entirety, as I say, I have never shown it to a soul; there was just a little more that I read to my wife (who could not hear enough about his); then I folded up the letter, and even she has never seen the passages to which I allude.
And yet I am not one of those who hold that the previous romances of married people should be taboo between them in after life.