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No, one, sudden, or shallow act would have brought me to it .. I had felt afraid, and when I saw proof and reality looming up, hard and bleak I was'nt tame enough to bear it well and was rattled and peevish.   

I wrote you a note last night to say this, and tore it up, believing you would not have cared what I said and would have forgotten it all . . I was afraid to go to the sale for fear of seeing you, and afraid not to go for fear of not seeing you! . . Nothing matters but the innermost, instinctive, turn of motive - and if I took you wrong, then, you have more to forgive than I . . Therein am I exalted - do you see . . Dont let me down