Mr.Herrick has been talking to me; he has made me see things in a different light.

I know now that I am no fit wife for you, my life has been too soiled and degraded.

In experience I am twenty or thirty years older than you, and though I am only nine-and-twenty, my heart is gray.

Dear--dearest, you are so young--perhaps that is why I love you--your youth is so gracious and lovely in my eyes.

But Mr.Herrick is right.