Valeria is aware that you are my old friend.

She will certainly write to you; she may even be bold enough to make her way into your house.

Renew your promise to keep the great calamity of my life a secret, on your honor and on your oath.

'Those were his words, as nearly as I can remember them.

I tried to treat the thing lightly; I ridiculed the absurdly theatrical notion of 'renewing my promise,' and all the rest of it.
Quite useless! He refused to leave me; he reminded me of his unmerited sufferings, poor fellow, in the past time.