News travel even to this wild place and next thing I hear from Jamaica is that old Mason is dead and that family plan to marry the girl to a young Englishman who know nothing of her. Then it seems to me that it is my Christian duty to warn the gentleman that she is no girl to marry with the bad blood ahead have from both sides. But they are white, I am coloured. They are rich, I am poor.
When a man don't love you, more your try, more he hate you, man like that. If you love them they treat you bad, if you don't love them they after you night and day bothering your soul case out.
Reality might disconcert her, bewilder her, hurt her, but it would not be reality. It would be only a mistake, a misfortune, a wrong path taken, her fixed ideas would never change.