When you bid me strengthen myself, you tell me to alter my character.

The resolution needed to preserve the better part of my nature through such a life as this, will never be within my reach.

It is fearful to think of what I shall become as time goes on.

I dread myself! There have been revealed to me depths of passion and misery in my own heart which I had not suspected.

I shall lose all self-control, and become as selfish and heedless as she is." "No, you will not," said Waymark encouragingly.