The important part is what I have told you.

The whole tragedy was due to the fact that this man came into our house at a time when an immense abyss had already been dug between us, that frightful tension of mutual hatred, in which the slightest motive sufficed to precipitate the crisis.

Our quarrels in the last days were something terrible, and the more astonishing because they were followed by a brutal passion extremely strained.

If it had not been he, some other would have come.

If the pretext had not been jealousy, I should have discovered another.