ABSTRACT
I believe both the words of your expression, and the motive of them, were honest – and one has not time on the earth but to accept what one believes. Therefore, your singularly sweet letter is as honey to one who tries to guard himself against falsity with a mailed covering of good-humoured doubt. This ordinary defence you have passed through in your kindness, and I accept the loveliness of love fearlessly when – happily – it crosses my way; which gate of passage through life has its sadness at times – from the contrary of love besetting the road. How can I be unhappy when trustfulness in my life has met truth by the way from those whom you too have known? I can talk of the rest of your good telling; this counterpart had to be written.
