I have been quietly learning to know her, these past three months, and have been falling in love with her without being conscious of it.

It appeared, when I spoke to her, that she had a kindness for me.

So the thing was settled.

I must of course make some money before we can marry.

It 's rather droll, certainly, to engage one's self to a girl whom one is going to leave the next day, for years.
We shall be condemned, for some time to come, to do a terrible deal of abstract thinking about each other.