And for that reason I afterwards brought you here.

You fought against it, and it was I who forced you to come.

I was so happy when I found that you again took an interest in life, and had once more become a man and a worker! I would have given some of my blood if necessary to complete your cure....
Well, it's done now, I have given you all I had, since Marie herself has become necessary to you, and she alone can save you." Then as Pierre again attempted to protest, he resumed: "Don't deny it.

It is so true indeed, that if she does not complete the work I have begun, all my efforts will have been vain, you will fall back into your misery and negation, into all the torments of a spoilt life.

She is necessary to you, I say.