In your case I have no right to do either.

I am an old man, and you are a very young woman.

You are beginning your life,--I am ending mine.

Yet, young as you are, you say with apparent sincerity that you do not believe in love.

Now I, though I have loved and lost, though I have loved and have been cruelly deceived in love, still believe that if the true, heavenly passion be fully and faithfully experienced, it must prove the chief joy, if not the only one, of life.