Believe me I love you with my whole soul.
"I have come to you voluntarily, and my mother, who is in Tinkletown, in resigning herself to the calls of conscience, is now happier than she has ever been before.

A more powerful influence than her own will or her own honour, an influence that was evil to the core, inspired her to countenance this awful wrong.

It also checkmated every good impulse she may have had to undo it in after years.

That influence came from Oswald Banks, a base monster to whom my mother was married when I was a year old.

My mother was the daughter of Lord Abbott Brace, but married my own father, George Stuart, who was a brilliant but radical newspaper writer in London, against her father's wish.