text: '" But here Lafontaine interfered obviously through fear of my plunging into some discovery of my own demerits which had not struck him on his first perusal; and I surrendered the letter postscript and all having first ascertained by a glance that the former was dated at the very hour of the discovery of my unlucky stanzas to Clotilde and the latter probably after the "fair penitent" had time to reflect on the matter and let compassion make its way