My people didn't like the match, but I wouldn't listen.

It came like some sort of judgment.
Not long after we were married it came--the dreadful accident, with a run-away team--and we saw,--we knew--in a little while--that she simply lived like a child--a plant--That was ten years ago, ten centuries!--ten thousand years of torture.

But I kept her.

I shielded her the best I knew how.

That was her place yonder, where the bars were--you see.