This was true: and while he spoke my very conscience and reason turned traitors against me, and charged me with crime in resisting him. They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. “Oh, comply!” it said. “Think of his misery; think of his danger⁠—look at his state when left alone; remember his headlong nature; consider the recklessness following on despair⁠—soothe him; save him; love him; tell him you love him and will be his. Who in the world cares for you ? or who will be injured by what you do?”