Edward Ferrars to Elinor Dashwood
“Had I an active profession, I should never have felt such an idle and foolish inclination. My behaviour at Norland was very wrong, but I convinced myself that you felt only friendship for me, and that it was my heart alone that I was risking. I’ve come here with no expectations only to profess now that i am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.”