She made no reply to Mr.Goodwood; but at the end of three days she wrote to Lord Warburton, and the letter belongs to our history.
DEAR LORD WARBURTON--A great deal of earnest thought has not led me to change my mind about the suggestion you were so kind as to make me the other day.

I am not, I am really and truly not, able to regard you in the light of a companion for life; or to think of your home--your various homes--as the settled seat of my existence.

These things cannot be reasoned about, and I very earnestly entreat you not to return to the subject we discussed so exhaustively.

We see our lives from our own point of view; that is the privilege of the weakest and humblest of us; and I shall never be able to see mine in the manner you proposed.

Kindly let this suffice you, and do me the justice to believe that I have given your proposal the deeply respectful consideration it deserves.