Why should I not be?
It is true that I have dreamed of a certain marriage: one of the parties would not listen to my propositions, and the other had abandoned the idea.

My project has come to nothing.

Camille has enjoined me never to speak of it to him again.

You see I am no longer interested in the question, or, rather, I have in the matter no other interest than that which I feel for Antoinette, whose happiness is as dear to me as it is to you.

Apropos, do not give her my letters; read to her the passages that you judge suitable to communicate to her--I leave that to your discretion.
"First of all, let me unfold to you my humble opinions.