Given the horror with which 'Cupid's disease' was regarded in 1900 Mary must have told as few people as possible of the real cause of her husband's decline into insanity.

Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.

Eve: You learn to appreciate the light by living in the dark.

She had anticipated passionate reproaches, tears even, for an attractive women who has been consistently spoiled by her menkind is, of all her sex, the least prepared to bow to the force of circumstances.