I try to write dispassionately, but I am in truth overborne by passion. I also have heard in California rumours about myself, and after much delay I received your letter. I resolved to follow you to England as soon as circumstances would permit me. I have been forced to fight a battle about my property, and I have won it. I had two reasons for carrying this through by my personal efforts before I saw you. I had begun it and had determined that I would not be beaten by fraud. And I was also determined that I would not plead to you as a pauper. We have talked too freely together in past days of our mutual money matters for me to feel any delicacy in alluding to them. When a man and woman have agreed to be husband and wife there should be no delicacy of that kind. When we came here together we were both embarrassed. 
I try to write dispassionately, but I am in truth overcome by passion. I also have heard in California rumours about myself. When I received your letter, I resolved to follow you to England as soon as I could. I have been forced to fight a battle for my property, and I have won it; for I was determined that I would not plead to you as a pauper. When a man and woman have agreed to be husband and wife there should be no delicacy in talking about money. 