I believed you were simply flirting with me; that you meant no more by it than you had meant before; and being forewarned, and therefore having no fear that I should hurt myself more than you would, I entered into it in the same spirit.
Where there was so much to be anxious about, it was a pleasure and relief.

Had I met you elsewhere, and under different circumstances, I think I should have come to love you.

A girl almost without experience and new to the world, as I am, could hardly have helped doing so, I think.

Had I thought you were in earnest I should have acted differently; and if I have deceived you by my manner I am sorry; but even had I loved you I would not have consented to do the thing you ask me.

You are going on duty.