I became your intimate friend, your sole companion, your confidant.

You must grant that you owe to me the last happy moments of your short existence.

I soon knew your origin, the history of your youth, of your enterprises, and of your misfortunes.

You initiated me into the secret of the great invention that you had just made; you explained to me in detail the mechanism of your famous gun.

I was intelligent; I understood, or thought I understood.