I do not know how to advise you.

If Constance is told, you may some day forget all about your present infatuation; and then a mass of mischief and misery will have been made for nothing.

If she is not told, you will be keeping up a cruel deception and wasting her chances of----but she will never care for anybody else." "Better do as I say.

Leave matters alone for the present.

But mind! no speculating on my changing my intentions.