Re: Vanessa I/Mina M
I did not mean to move you, only to tell you the circumstances.
I loved him. I would that he had felt he could marry me. But I realized that he would never crave my love as much as he craved his father's, or that of any woman. [...] Or maybe I flatter myself, in assuming he rejected the entire female race, rather than only me.
I always saw the madness in it, but I do not think a wife could have dissuaded him any more than a girl. Only his father could have done that.
Do you remember how you held my hand? On the beach and in the house, at a ball when you were frightened and excited to see your dance card fill? I thought, here is the other half to my coin. As two parts of a piece of silver, we will never be apart from one another. As reflections, we will always mirror in opposite, and no force could sever.