"I see that my presence is irksome to you.

Painful as it is to me to believe it, I see that it is so, and cannot be otherwise.

I don't blame you, and God is my witness that on seeing you at the time of your illness I resolved with my whole heart to forget all that had passed between us and to begin a new life.

I do not regret, and shall never regret, what I have done; but I have desired one thing--your good, the good of your soul--and now I see I have not attained that.