The Maid (Unknown)
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You are right.
You are quite right.
And I warn you that anything... Yes, sir, I am your prisoner.
I could hear everything, and I know that you have learned the truth.
It was I who killed that young man.
Then you realize... But you are right, you, sir, who say that it was an accident.
I did not even know that I had a knife in my hand.
In my despair, I snatched the nearest thing from the table and struck at him to make him let me go.
Oh, thank you.
I have only a little time here, and I must tell you the whole truth.
I am this man's wife.
He is not an Englishman.
He is a Russian.
I will not tell you his name.
The Lord bless you.
I wonder why you cling so hard to that wretched life of yours again.
It has brought no good to anyone, least of all yourself.
I was a foolish girl when I married this old man in Russia.
We were reformers, revolutionaries.