Do you think me insincere?
Do you think I forget how kind you were when society would not have tolerated the ghost I was?
I am not one who forgets and ignores the past--who can go on to new friends with a frigid shoulder for old ones.

Let us end these misunderstandings.
Before the year is out you will probably be engaged, perhaps married.
Our lives will be widely separated.

That is inevitable from the nature of things.

But distance and absence can cause no such separation as results from misunderstanding.

If we should not meet again in twenty years I should be the same loyal friend.