I also had a confused idea that a trial would deliver you into my hands; that, as a prisoner I should hold you, I should have you; that there you could not escape from me; that you had already possessed me a sufficiently long time to give me the right to possess you in my turn.
Je pensais aussi confusément qu’un procès te livrerait à moi, que dans une prison je te tiendrais, je t’aurais, que là tu ne pourrais m’échapper, que tu me possédais depuis assez longtemps pour que je te possédasse aussi à mon tour.