And, in addition, since this is a confession, I must tell you everything; you pleased me particularly in this half mystery; it would have disturbed me to have you come out from it, for my great happiness was to dream of you as if you were an apparition, or an unknown something to be worshipped from afar, without ever hoping to become acquainted with you.

Later on, I knew who you were, for after all it is difficult to resist the temptation to know what may be the realisation of one's dream.

It was then that my restlessness commenced.

It has increased at each meeting.

Do you recollect the first time that we spoke to each other in the field near by, on that forenoon when I was examining the painted window?
Never in my life did I feel so awkward as then, and it was not strange that you ridiculed me so.