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May 2. 64. When I said "I did not like to talk about matters of the soul," I meant to say only that argument about questions of the soul was repulsive to me. There are some things which, the holier they are, are the least fitted to be "talked" about. Thus, Love. No man or woman would profane the sanctity of it by making his or her feeling of desire for another the topic of ordinary conversation; how much transcended in depth and tenderness by the love of the All-father toward us. Yet lovers can without detriment or stain dwell upon their affection together: and you and I, dear friend, because we are agreed in thinking our relations to Heaven infinitely sacred and precious, can talk about these things without that sense of being rent which comes from the instances I named in my last. But you see what I meant - do you not? Perhaps: Kingsley may have said well. I know that God is wise and good: I think also that I trust Him. Nor indeed do I measure my little personal griefs and pains as being of great account. But children cry out, sometimes, not knowing what is best. Yes: if my life is shared, I must come to see you before I go back to England. I want to see you, and therefore, if I live, I shall come.