But it is not only to speak of your invaluable gift I write; it is also to ask you to do a strange thing to please me this morning.

It is now eight o'clock.

We are appointed to meet at the church at eleven.

Will you meet me _here_ first at half-past nine?
I wish to tell you something before we go to the altar.

It is nothing important that I have to tell you--you will probably only laugh at it; but I must get it off my mind; for it weighs there like a sin.