You have let her go, believing that she had been playing a pretty part
behind your back, and that I was her confidante, and perhaps also the
instigator of her wicked deeds.
Lillie has taken refuge with her children's old nurse.
How significant! Lillie, who has as many friends as either of us, knows
by a subtle instinct that none of them would befriend her in her
misfortune.
If you, Professor, were a large-hearted man, what would you do? You
would explain to the chief doctor at the infirmary Lillie's great wish
to remain near Schlegel until the end comes.
Weigh what I am saying well. Lillie is, and will always remain the same.
She loves you, and such a line of conduct on your part would fill her
with grateful joy. What does it matter if during the few days or weeks
that she is with this poor condemned man, who can neither recognize her,
nor speak, nor make the least movement, you have to put up with some
inconvenience?
If Lillie had your consent to be near Schlegel, she would certainly not
refuse to return to her wifely duties as soon as he was dead.
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