It was now two years since she had been forced to separate from Victor, finding herself unable longer to countenance and suffer his many-sided beastliness; and a year since the hand of Death had penned an inexorable finis to the too-brief chapter of her one great romance.

Mais c'est affreux d'avoir à se mettre cela Dans la tête, que c'est fini, qu'ils l'ont tuée, Qu'elle est morte!Oh! ce fils de la prostituée, Ce Ratbert, comme il m'a hideusement trompé!