Take the advice of a woman of the world, my dear girl, and do not attempt the impossible and so spoil two lives.
Again I say, wait awhile.
There are girls who could be perfectly happy in the position you picture for yourself with Ernest, but not you.
Better hide your ideal in your heart than shatter it on the unswept hearthstone of the commonplace.
Better be in your lover's life the unattained joy, than ruin his happiness by discontent.
It is less of a tragedy for a man to hear a woman say "I cannot go with you," than to hear her say "I cannot stay with you."
To Miss Jane Carter
Of the W.C.T.U.