Of course he must have had forebodings; he was warned as I've related, again and again; but he took character-colour from his associates and he met Queensberry's first attempts at attack with utter disdain.

He did not realise his danger at all.

Gide reports him more correctly as adding: "Prison has completely changed me.

I was relying on it for that--Douglas is terrible.

He cannot understand that--cannot understand that I am not taking up the same existence again.