I have wronged you.

I have been in such turmoil of mind and conscience for so long a time that I am hardly responsible, and now I suppose I am in a fever because of the loss of blood." I resumed my chair, the difference being settled between us, and in a moment we began to discuss the cause of Frances's sudden change.
It must be remembered that I knew nothing all this time of Hamilton's remote connection with Roger Wentworth's murder.

The dimly hinted rumors that had reached my ears I had put down to Crofts's desire for a scapegoat, and the conversation between Frances and Nelly, and Nelly's conclusions, all came to me after this interview with Hamilton.
Failing to reach any conclusion after a long discussion of the subject, Hamilton and I began to speak on other topics, and I asked him where he had been and what he had been doing.
"I have been at the French court, gambling furiously, and hoarding my money," he answered.

"I have not even bought a suit of clothes, and have turned every piece of lace and every jewel I possessed into cash." "I supposed you were leaving off some of your old ways, gambling among them," I remarked, sorry to hear of his fall from grace.
"And so I have," he answered.

"But I wanted a thousand pounds to use in a good cause, and felt that I was doing no wrong to rob a very bad Peter in France to pay a very good Paul at home.