I can better
bear the loss of the personal happiness of a home and a husband's love."
Wilfred is just the man to protect you and to keep the world at a
distance, where it could not affect your life by its comments. He
regards your birth in the same light that I do, and would rather
transmit your lovely qualities of soul and mind to his descendants than
the traits of many proudly born girls who are ready to take him at the
first asking: for you must know how popular he is with our sex.
I can not believe you are insensible to his magnetic and lovable
qualities, but, as you say, you have been so saddened by the sudden
knowledge of your history that it has blunted your emotions in other
directions. I can only hope this will wear away and that you will
reconsider your resolve and consent to make Wilfred the happy and proud
man you could, by becoming his wife.
_Never forget that God created love and man created marriage_.
And to be born of a loveless union is a darker blight than to be born in
love without union.
But what I want to talk about now, is your determination to live a
single life and to devote yourself to reclaiming weak and erring women.
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