Else I were no man.

If your--beauty--has moved me, that need not concern you--and surely not alarm you.

A woman's beauty is her own affair.

Men take their chance with it--as I take mine with yours--that it do me no deep damage.

And if it do, or do not, our friendship is still another matter; for it means that I wish you well, desire to aid you, ease your burdens, make you secure and safe, vary your solitude with a friendly word--I mean, Lois, to be to you a real comrade, if you will.