Series 03: Marie Rose Martin nee Livesey letters, 26 December 1911-22 November 1922 - Page 93
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must go with marriage of the body if the thing is to be moral. All marriage without this higher love is immoral.... As for marrying you and living as sister and brothr - we would be fools. Fancy a girl tying herself to a man whom she could regard only as a brother, when the whole of what she craved might any day chance to be hers if she remains free.
Leave the thing alone, Harry. You don't understand - though you may think you do... Social, financial, Moral, intellectual position have nothing to do with it... Money is of little or no account either... The whole trouble lies in the fact, that on the road of evolution I happen to be a step in advance - rather a broad step, too. I'm sorry, but I can't alter it. I've known it from the first I saw of you...
You asked me to be candid - and trust my candour has not hurt you too much. In the higher things of life you and I are as wide apart as the poles..... And with Marie its the higher things that count... As far as the life of the body is concerned we might get along well enough, but with me the body is a very minor consideration.
Well, Harry, my dear Cousin, I can't say there is news to tell.... Mother informs me she has not yet posted your letter, so what there is to tell which I may have