"I am almost falling despite the stimulus of food and drink I can touch.

I never can thank you properly for that.

I won't be able to work hard enough to show you how much I appreciate what you have done for me.

But you don't understand.

A woman, even a poverty-poor woman, if she be delicately born and reared, cannot go to another woman on a man's whim, and when she lacks even the barest necessities.