"Hush, dear," he said.

"I must tell you everything, and you have promised to listen, and to advise and help.
Ah, Jane, Jane! I shall need your help.

I want it so greatly, and not only your help, Jane--but YOU--you, yourself.

Ah, how I want you! These three days have been one continual ache of loneliness, because you were not there; and life began to live and move again, when you returned.
And yet it has been so hard, waiting all these hours to speak.

I have so much to tell you, Jane, of all you are to me--all you have become to me, since the night of the concert.