"You are right.

It is foolish; for I see that I do not love the girl deeply enough to spoil my life." "Come now.

You were more in love than you thought; but it is always so; even in pure and passionless natures human nature is very strong, and the first young and pretty girl who comes near enough to you brings out all the dormant feelings, and reason disappears.

People often do the maddest things in this period of unrest, which they repent all their after life.

I have always mistrusted a first love.