"Ay, and women, too--but that much, I might have shared with them, if I dared." He shrugs a little. "For all that, I led an easy life. I never wanted for food or shelter. My father yet lives, and loves me, and would do all in his power to see me untouched by suffering or scandal. I don't mean to set myself within thy sphere. Only ... only, I suppose, to say that thou art not alone."