"You also know the terrible torments which my absence inflicts.
"Before yesterday, not having felt these torments in all their anguish, you presumed to refuse what I expected of you.
"To-day, as past sufferings will be a guarantee for the sufferings to come, listen to me.
"You can put an end to these sufferings.
"For that, you must grant me three things.
"I demand the first to-day; in eight days the second; in fifteen days the third.
"I proportion the importance of my demands to the progress of your suffering, because the more you suffer, the more you will regret me and show yourself docile.
"Send back by the bearer of this note, your nonsuit of all complaint against Captain Horace.
"Give me by this act a proof of your desire to satisfy me, and then you will be able to hope that you may find again