You had better make yourself as comfortable as you can, since you have no hope of escape till it suits my purpose to have you set free.

Good care will be taken of you.

You must have been a fool to suppose that I would submit to the injustice of J.N.'s will.' "For a long time I sat like some stupid bewildered creature, going over these words again and again, as if I had no power to understand them.

It was very long before I could believe that my father meant to shut me up in that room for an indefinite time--for the rest of my life, perhaps.
But, little by little, I came to believe this, and to feel nothing but a blank despair.

O, Nelly, I dare not dwell upon that time! I suffered too much.