In your own interests, think over it well.' "I was left alone.
"Shall I tell you what saved me from sinking under the shock?
Ovid--thousands and thousands of miles away--Ovid saved me.
"I love him with all my heart and soul; and I do firmly believe that I know him better than I know myself.

If his mother had betrayed Miss Minerva to him, as she has betrayed her to me, that unhappy woman would have had his truest pity.

I am as certain of this, as I am that I see the moon, while I write, shining on my bed.

Ovid would have pitied her.
And I pitied her.
"I wrote the lines that follow, and sent them to her by the maid.

In the fear that she might mistake my motives, and think me angry and jealous, I addressed her with my former familiarity by her christian name:--"'Last night, Frances, I ventured to ask if you loved some one who did not love you.