But I am sure it is not old England which made the laws we hate and sent soldiers to Boston.

Is it not another England which the King and his ministers invented?
I ask you to be true to old England which, my father has told me, stood for justice and human rights.
"But after all, what has politics to do with you and me as a pair of human beings?
Our love is a thing above that.

The acts of the King or my fellow countrymen can not affect my love for you, and to know that you are of the same mind holds me above despair.

I would think it a great hardship if either King or colony had the power to put a tax on you--a tax which demanded my principles.

Can not your father differ with me in politics--although when you were here I made sure that he agreed with us--and keep his faith in me as a gentleman?
I can not believe that he would like me if I had a character so small and so easily shifted about that I would change it to please him.