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I know well that such a change
of arrangements as that which I now propose will be regarded most
unfavourably. But will not anything be better than the binding of a
matrimonial knot which cannot be again unloosed, and which we should
both regret?
I do not know that I need add anything further. What can I add further?
Only this, that I am inflexible. Having resolved to take this step and
to bear the evil things that may be said of me, for your happiness and
for my own tranquillity, I shall not now relinquish my resolution. I do
not ask you to forgive me. I doubt much whether I shall ever be quite
able to forgive myself. The mistake which I have made is one which
should not have been committed. I do not ask you to forgive me; but I
do ask you to pray that I may be forgiven.
Yours, with feelings of the truest friendship,
THOMAS GIBSON.'

The letter had been very difficult, but he was rather proud of it than
otherwise when it was completed. He had felt that he was writing a
letter which not improbably might become public property.


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