Spellbound
My intentions were different when this began.

I admit that I did not mean for it to become this, to make me feel quite this way.

I'm not a dishonest man, I am not a shameful man, and I am not the sort of man who would disrespect one whom he has pledged to honor as a man.

So, perhaps you should question how I would reply. Yet, I don't imagine my answer would change anything now or later. I don't have illusions of what I can have, of what I deserve, of what I can take. I do not question how she feels for you.

I have known that from the beginning and have never forgotten it.

Would I if I could?

Marius de Romanus
ante diem VIII Ides November MMDCCLX