My mother brought about a reconciliation.

Soon after that he began to ill-treat me.

I suffered that in silence too, to avoid a public scandal, and more particularly for my father's sake.

He would have killed him if he had known.

Later--later--I must tell it you, so that you may grasp the whole situation--the villain did all he could to direct King Amadeo's attention to me--he had just come to Madrid.