It would be an injustice, and a sin, to do so.

Yet I feel assured that there is no such danger.
"A woman, Alice, rarely marries her first love, and it is well that it is so.

Her feelings, rather than her judgment, are then enlisted, and both should be exercised when so fearful a thing as marriage is concerned.

You have been a great deal with Walter, and have always regarded him tenderly, more so of late, because the feelings strengthen with time, and Walter's situation is such as to enlist all your sympathies; his fascinating appearance and interesting qualities have charmed your affections.

You see him casting from him the best friends he has ever had, because he feels condemned of ingratitude in their society.