He is near what Dada's age would have been, and is, I think I can affirm, next to my dead father and my Emmy, my dearest friend.

I love him.

I could say it in the streets without shame; and you do not imagine me shameless.

Whatever his character in his younger days, he can be honestly a woman's friend, believe me.

I see straight to his heart; he has no disguise; and unless I am to suppose that marriage is the end of me, I must keep him among my treasures.