We will see, forsooth, whether you will escape the scaffold--you, who are guilty!" "Well, then, go to your father," said Catharine; "go and accuse me.

But first you shall hear me.

This man whom I loved, I wanted to renounce, in order to give him to you.

By the confession of your love, you had crushed my happiness and my future.

But I was not angry with you.