So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect on you.

You complain of our separation.

What then should I say, if I dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if we had not religion to console us life would be very sad.

Why do you suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young man? On such matters I am only severe with myself.

I understand such feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of them, neither do I condemn them.