The thought of Mary Stuart drove her wild.

Dorothy threw herself on her face upon the bed, and Madge went over and sat by her side to soothe her.

I, with a feeling of guilt, so adroit had been Dorothy's defence, left the girls and went to my room in the tower to unravel, by the help of my pipe, the tangled web of woman's incomprehensibility.

I failed, as many another man had failed before me, and as men will continue to fail to the end of time..