I am merely facing the situation very frankly.

It would be useless for me to claim lack of interest in you.

From our very first meeting, you have appealed to me strongly--more so than any other woman of my acquaintance.

Then, perhaps, the peculiarity of our relationship, with the trust you seemed to impose in me, tended to deepen that interest.

I confess I began to care for you--as a woman." "Really you are quite flattering.