You have created a strong sentiment in my mind in favour of this country, a sentiment which I did not previously possess.

There is no other way in which you could have influenced the decision soon to be arrived at.

In return for what I have told you, Lady Maggie, I ask for no promise, but I beg you to forget the role you played in Germany; not to attempt--you will not be offended ?--to influence events so far as I am concerned by any attempt at spying upon my actions, or by treating me any other way than with your whole confidence.

I do not ask for any promise.

I have said something to you which has been on my mind.