You must not take it too tragically.

You have passed through your heart crisis--it comes to most of us--only with you it has happened late, and under unpropitious circumstances.

That has tended to make it more severe than is usually the case.

But now, let it be past and over, though naturally it will take some little time for your mind to regain its normal balance.

What I regret most in the affair is, that it precludes the idea of marriage for you for some time to come, and I had wished that so much for you.