Perhaps it will help you to understand if I tell you something that happened to Nicholas when he was just a boy.
9 seconds sound clip from the The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:25:46 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Has he?
- Yes.
- In not telling you before, he only meant to spare you pain.
- He is a good man, a kind and gentle man, and I know that he adored your sister.
- One day, while Nicholas was playing in the lower corridor...
- He had been forbidden by our father to enter this chamber at any time.
- The curiosity of youth, however, overcame his fear of challenging our father's discipline.
- Suddenly there were footsteps. It was our father.
[...]