Through it all, however, you were never neglected nor forgotten.

My mother had your welfare always in mind.

It was she who saw that you and I were placed at the same school in New York, and it was she who saw that your training in a way was as good as it could possibly be without exciting risk.
"Of course, I knew nothing of all this.

I was rolling in wealth and luxury, but not in happiness.

Instinctively I loathed my stepfather.