My treatment of you henceforth will be regulated by one principle.
I regard you only as one undergoing a probation or apprenticeship; as subjected to trials of your sincerity and fortitude.

The marriage I now propose to you is desirable, because it will make you independent of me.
Your poverty might create an unsuitable bias in favour of proposals, one of whose effects would be to set you beyond fortune's reach.

That bias will cease, when you cease to be poor and dependent.
Love is the strongest of all human delusions.

That fortitude, which is not subdued by the tenderness and blandishments of woman, may be trusted; but no fortitude, which has not undergone that test, will be trusted by us.
This woman is a charming enthusiast.

She will never marry but him whom she passionately loves.