"You will understand me, because you know what it is to have wishes, hopes and aspirations that are never realized.

You know what it is to be unworldly and unlike others.
"I was but a girl when I was married, Basil--an innocent, unsuspecting girl, just seventeen.

I might plead, in excuse of what followed, that I was married without my own inclination being consulted--unwillingly sacrificed to money that never has done me any good, and never will.

I might plead my youth, my unhappiness, the utter want of congeniality with the man I married; but I will not.

You shall judge me without excuses.