If he had said into his talk, it would have been the exact truth.
People have differed a great deal about his mental and physical condition after he came out of prison.

All who knew him really, Ross, Turner, More Adey, Lord Alfred Douglas and myself, are agreed that in spite of a slight deafness he was never better in health, never indeed so well.

But some French friends were determined to make him out a martyr.
In his picture of Wilde's last years, Gide tells us that "he had suffered too grievously from his imprisonment....

His will had been broken ...

nothing remained in his shattered life but a mouldy ruin,[23] painful to contemplate, of his former self.