Your origin has unfortunately become known to the members of your husband's family; their pride has been deeply wounded; and the women especially regard you with feelings of malignant hatred.

I have good reason for fearing that they may try to excuse their inhuman way of speaking of you, by making public the calamity of your slave-birth.

What deplorable influence might be exercised on your husband's mind, by such an exposure as this, I will not stop to inquire.
It will be more to the purpose to say that I am able to offer you a sure means of protecting yourself--through information which I have unexpectedly obtained, and the source of which I am obliged to keep secret.

If you are ever threatened by your enemies, open the packet which I have now sealed up, and you will command the silence of the bitterest man or woman who longs to injure you.

I may add that absolute proof accompanies every assertion which my packet contains.