But I cannot but perceive that you are allowing yourself to be entrapped into an intimacy with Colonel Osborne which if it be not checked, will be destructive to my happiness and your own.

After what had passed before, you cannot have thought it right to receive letters from him which I was not to see, or to write letters to him of which I was not to know the contents.

It must be manifest to you that such conduct on your part is wrong as judged by any of the rules by which a wife's conduct can be measured.
And yet you have refused even to say that this shall be discontinued! I need hardly explain to you that if you persist in this refusal you and I cannot continue to live together as man and wife.

All my hopes and prospects in life will be blighted by such a separation.

I have not as yet been able to think what I should do in such wretched circumstances.