I say I followed you through the hour of that ceremony.

I swore with her vows, I pledged with her pledge, promised with her promise.

Yes, yes--yes, though I prayed that, after all, I might lose, that I might pay back; that I might some time have opportunity to atone for my own wickedness! Ah! I was only a woman.

The strongest of women are weak sometimes.
"Well, then, my friend, I have paid.

I thank God that I failed then to make another wretched as myself.