I have too much confidence for that, I can assure you, both in your honour and in my own--I would say charms, only you would call me vain.

You must not suppose that I meant what I said about L.D.
Of course, you will be glad to see the friends of your childhood; and it would be far from your Amelia's heart to begrudge you such delightful pleasure.

Your friends will, I hope, some day be my friends.

[Another crunch.] And if there be any one among them, any real L.D.whom you have specially liked, I will receive her to my heart, specially also.

[This assurance on the part of his Amelia was too much for him, and he threw the letter from him, thinking whence he might get relief--whether from suicide or from the colonies; but presently he took it up again, and drained the bitter cup to the bottom.] And if I seemed petulant to you before you went away, you must forgive your own Amelia.