I'm afraid you always knew it.

I'm not conventional and cautious about being engaged, as you say I am, dear.

(I always read over the "dears" in your letters a time or two, as you say you do in mine--only I read all of your letters a time or two!) But it's such a solemn thing it scares me.

It means a good deal to a lot of people besides you and me, and that scares me, too.

You write that I take your feeling for me "too lightly" and that I "take the whole affair too lightly." Isn't that odd! Because to myself I seem to take it as something so much more solemn than you do.