"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony half hope. Tell me not that I am too late that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.