However, at last he grew better, and gave hopes that he would recover, as indeed he did, though very slowly. Were it otherwise than what I am going to say, I should not be backward to disclose it, as it is apparent I have done in other cases in this account; but I affirm, that through all this conversation, abating the freedom of coming into the chamber when I or he was in bed, and abating the necessary offices of attending him night and day when he was sick, there had not passed the least immodest word or action between us.
S'il en était autrement que je ne vais dire, je ne répugnerais pas à le révéler, comme il est apparent que j'ai fait en d'autres cas; mais j'affirme qu'à travers toute cette liaison, excepté pour ce qui est d'entrer dans la chambre quand lui ou moi nous étions au lit, et de l'office nécessaire des soins de nuit et de jour quand il fut malade, il n'avait point passé entre nous la moindre parole ou action impure.