I can tell you when it died, if you like." And as he said nothing: "It died when I came in late one evening, and, passing my corridor and a certain locked door, I heard a young girl sobbing.

Then it died." She turned on him, contemptuously indifferent, and surveyed him at her leisure: "Your conduct to me has been such as to deliberately incite me to evil.
Your attitude has been a constant occult force, driving me toward it.

By the life you have led, and compelled me to lead, you have virtually set a premium upon my infidelity.

What you may have done, I don't know; what you have done, even recently, I am not sure of.

But I know this: you took my life and made a parody of it.