And now about myself,--immediately. I have come here all alone. Since I last saw you in New York I have not had altogether a good time. I have had a great struggle and have been thrown on my own resources and have been all alone. Very cruel things have been said of me. You heard cruel things said, but I presume them to have been said to you with reference to my late husband. Since that they have been said to others with reference to you. I have not now come, as my countrymen do generally, backed with a trunk full of introductions and with scores of friends ready to receive me. It was necessary to me that I should see you and hear my fate,--and here I am. I appeal to you to release me in some degree from the misery of my solitude. 
And now about myself. I have come here all alone. Since I last saw you in New York I have not had a good time. I have had a great struggle and have been thrown on my own resources. Very cruel things have been said of me - some of them with reference to you. I have no friends here ready to receive me. I needed to see you and hear my fate - and I appeal to you to release me from the misery of my solitude. 