My love for you includes every love the heart can know,--the love of father, brother, friend, lover.

Young as I am, you seem to me like my child, to be taken care of; and you seem like my sister, to be trusted and loved; and like my friend, to be leaned upon.

You see what my life is.

You see the burden which I must carry, and which none can share.

Do you think that the friendship I can give you can be worth what it would ask?
I feel withheld and ashamed as I speak to you.