"I, at least, have read yours, and you know mine.
Against your own convictions and your own feelings, you have been coerced into an engagement of marriage with a man you do not, and never can, love as a wife should love a husband.

Consummate that engagement, and years of wretchedness lie before you.

I say nothing of Mr.Dexter as regards honor, probity, and good feeling.

I believe him to be a man of high integrity.

His character before the world is blameless--his position one to be envied.