For, if it is a great emotion, it may afford you a cruel satisfaction at finding I suffer through separation; and if it be a growing indifference to you, it will be inflicting gratuitous unhappiness upon you to say so, if you care for me; as I SOMETIMES think you may do A LITTLE.' ('O, Paula!' said Somerset.) 'Please which way would you have it?
But it is better that you should guess at what I feel than that you should distinctly know it.
Notwithstanding this assertion you will, I know, adhere to your first prepossession in favour of prompt confessions.

In spite of that, I fear that upon trial such promptness would not produce that happiness which your fancy leads you to expect.

Your heart would weary in time, and when once that happens, good-bye to the emotion you have told me of.

Imagine such a case clearly, and you will perceive the probability of what I say.

At the same time I admit that a woman who is ONLY a creature of evasions and disguises is very disagreeable.
'Do not write VERY frequently, and never write at all unless you have some real information about the castle works to communicate.