I am sorry that you are grieved.

I can say no more, and perhaps the less I say the less pain I shall give.

Only permit me this remark.

Since I have known you, it has seemed to me that the utter distinction between our character and yours, showing as it does at so many points, springs from some single root-difference.

We, so careful of our own life and comfort, care little for those of others.
We, so afraid of pain, are indifferent to its infliction, unless we have to witness it, and only some of us flinch from the sight.