I cannot give an account of my interviews with the Governor or the doctor; it would smack of a breach of confidence; besides all such conversations are peculiarly personal: some people call forth the best in us, others the worst.

Without wishing to, I may have stirred up the lees.

I can only say here that I then learned for the first time the full, incredible meaning of "Man's inhumanity to man." In a quarter of an hour I was led into a bare room where Oscar Wilde was already standing by a plain deal table.

The warder who had come with him then left us.

We shook hands and sat down opposite to each other.