I have something of urgent importance to say to you._" (It was not clear to Fay what the matter of importance was.

But has not everyone in love laboured daily under a burden as big as Christian's, of subjects which demand instant discussion, or the bearer may fall into a state of melancholia?
Fay was convinced as she wrote that there was something she ached to say to him: and also the point was to say something that would bring him.) "_Don't fail me.

You have never failed me yet.

You left me before when it was right we should part.
Did I try to keep you then?
Did I say one word to hold you back ?_" (Fay's heart swelled as she wrote those words.

She saw, bathed in a new light, her own courage and uprightness in the past.