Every object in competition with you, was worthless and trivial.
No price was too great by which your safety could be purchased.

For that end, the sacrifice of ease, of health, and even of life, would cheerfully have been made by me.

What wonder then, that I scrutinized the sentiments and deportment of this man with ceaseless vigilance; that I watched your words and your looks when he was present; and that I extracted cause for the deepest inquietudes, from every token which you gave of having put your happiness into this man's keeping?
"I was cautious in deciding.

I recalled the various conversations in which the topics of love and marriage had been discussed.

As a woman, young, beautiful, and independent, it behoved you to have fortified your mind with just principles on this subject.