It is not for my own sake that I speak at this moment, but for yours.

I am indulgent, but the world is not; it shuns a woman who makes a scandal.

Is that just?
I know not; but this I know, the world is cruel.

Society refuses to calm the woes itself has caused; it gives its honors to those who best deceive it; it has no recompense for rash devotion.

I see and know all that.