I have trusted my reputation in your hands; I have made no scruple of giving you, under my own hand, an assurance of my friendship.

After all this, I exact nothing from you: if you find it inconvenient for your affairs to take so small a fortune, I desire you to sacrifice nothing to me; I pretend no tie upon your honour: but, in recompence for so clear and so disinterested a proceeding, must I ever receive injuries and ill usage?
"I have not the usual pride of my sex; I can bear being told I am in the wrong, but tell it me gently.

Perhaps I have been indiscreet; I came young into the hurry of the world; a great innocence and an undesigning gaiety may possibly have been construed coquetry and a desire of being followed, though never meant by me.

I cannot answer for the [reflections] that may be made on me: all who are malicious attack the careless and defenceless: I own myself to be both.

I not anything I can say more to shew my perfect desire of pleasing you and making you easy, than to proffer to be confined with you in what manner you please.