You can never know what I went through, Allan.

I saw now that Hendrika was quite mad, and but little removed from the brutes to which she is akin, and over which she has such unholy power.

The only trace of humanity left about her was her affection for me.

Evidently her idea was to keep me here with her, to keep me away from you, and to carry out this idea she was capable of the exercise of every artifice and cunning.

In this way she was sane enough, but in every other way she was mad.