It was in the fashion of the times--indeed it approached nearer modern ideas than the majority of love letters of that day which generally began with "Madam" without any endearing prefix.

Lavinia liked it none the less because it was not so formal as the letters which some girls had shown her in all pride and secrecy.
But it troubled her all the same.
"I wonder if I really--really love him," she mused.

"I suppose I do or I shouldn't be continually thinking about him.

But to be married--oh, that's a different thing.

Perhaps he'd want to live in the country.
That would be horribly dull, especially if he had to come to London often.