To say that I forgive you is not needful; at least, we are now separate for ever; by your own act, you free me from my willing bondage: I go free to prison.

This is the last that you will hear of me in love or anger.

I have gone out of your life; you may breathe easy; you have now rid yourself of the husband who allowed you to desert him, of the Prince who gave you his rights, and of the married lover who made it his pride to defend you in your absence.

How you have requited him, your own heart more loudly tells you than my words.

There is a day coming when your vain dreams will roll away like clouds, and you will find yourself alone.
Then you will remember OTTO.' She read with a great horror on her mind; that day, of which he wrote, was come.