Do I flatter myself when I feel that I doubt your pardon almost more than I doubt your love?
Think of this thing in all its bearings before you answer me. I am so anxious that you should think of it that I will not expect your reply till this day week. It can hardly be your desire to go through life unmarried. I should say that it must be essential to your ambition that you should join your lot to that of some man the nature of whose aspirations would be like to your own. It is because this was not so as regarded him whose suit you had accepted, that you found yourself at last obliged to part from him. May I not say that with us there would be no such difference? It is because I believe that in this respect we are fitted for each other, as man and woman seldom are fitted, that I once again ask you to be my wife.

Think well before you answer me. I will not expect your reply for a week. It can hardly be your desire to go through life unmarried. I should say that it must be essential to your ambition that you should join your lot to that of some man with aspirations like your own. It is because of this that you found yourself obliged to part from Mr. Grey. May I not say that with us there would be no such difference? I believe that in this respect we are fitted for each other.
