My rashness even hastened the completion of his scheme, and precluded him from the benefits of deliberation.

I had robbed him of the power to repent and forbear.

Had I been apprized of the danger, I should have regarded my conduct as the means of rendering my escape from it impossible.

Such, likewise, seem to have been the fears of my invisible protector.

Else why that startling intreaty to refrain from opening the closet?
By what inexplicable infatuation was I compelled to proceed?
Yet my conduct was wise.