CHAPTER V .-- HER SITUATION IS A TRYING ONE.
May 15 .-- The more I think of it day after day, the more convinced I am that my suspicions are true.

He is too interested in me--well, in plain words, loves me; or, not to degrade that phrase, has a wild passion for me; and his affection for Caroline is that towards a sister only.

That is the distressing truth; how it has come about I cannot tell, and it wears upon me.
A hundred little circumstances have revealed this to me, and the longer I dwell upon it the more agitating does the consideration become.

Heaven only can help me out of the terrible difficulty in which this places me.
I have done nothing to encourage him to be faithless to her.

I have studiously kept out of his way; have persistently refused to be a third in their interviews.