You offer me so much more than I deserve in offering me your love like this.

I scarcely know if I have a heart to give to any one.

I know that I have never loved anybody except my one friend and protector my dear adopted uncle." "But you do not say that you cannot love me, Marian.

Perhaps I have spoken too soon, after all.

It seems to me that I have known you for a lifetime; but that is only a lover's fancy.