….I confess what you already know, that you knew from the very first and from moment to moment through all its changes. But it will relieve me to tell you how my love has greatened. When first I broke the silence, it was with the intention of making you my mistress, or, rather, of trying to make you my mistress. Oh, believe me, believe me, I loved you then, but I loved you so much less than now, because I did not know how much greater you were then as now.