This I could never do--to me it seems ungrateful: yet I would not reproach you because you can--for the circumstances by which you have been surrounded have conspired to produce that result--and I presume you regard such conduct as necessary to sustain you in your present position.

From the tenor of your letter I should judge that you entertained some fear that I might compromise you with your future bride, and intimate that _my_ choice may deprive you of _yours_.

Surely that need not be.

_She_ need not even know of my existence.

Do not entertain a fear that I, or my future husband, will ever interfere with your happiness by thrusting ourselves upon you, or endanger your social position by proclaiming our relationship.