You need not.

I tell you, upon my honor, that if ever a man in this world deserved death, he deserved it." "From you ?" she asked.
"From me!" I answered firmly.

"It was not, perhaps, a personal matter, but I have a brother,--listen, mademoiselle!" I continued.

"He is a cripple.

He was thrown from his horse--he was master of hounds in those days--and he has never been able to walk since.