I could only have prepared you for this by coldness or neglect, which are wholly impossible to me when the spell of your presence is upon me.

I find that I must fly if I am to save myself.
"I am afraid that I cannot give you satisfactory and intelligible reasons for this step.

You are a beautiful and luxurious creature: life is to you full and complete only when it is a carnival of love.

My case is just the reverse.

Before three soft speeches have escaped me I rebuke myself for folly and insincerity.