What do you know about my sensibilities and my imagination?
How do you know whether I have loved or suffered?
If I have held my tongue and not troubled you with my complaints, you find it the most natural thing in the world to put an ignoble construction on my silence.
I loved quite as well as you; indeed, I think I may say rather better.

I have been constant.

I have been willing to give more than I received.

I have not forsaken one mistress because I thought another more beautiful, nor given up the other and believed all manner of evil about her because I had not my way with her.

I have been a good friend to Christina Light, and it seems to me my friendship does her quite as much honor as your love!" "Your love--your suffering--your silence--your friendship!" cried Roderick.