Phoebe?
Yes, Nat? [1]
Do you remember that time we sat in the garden?
I sure do, you told me that one story.
Well, you fell into a trance, and you nearly fell asleep and I could have taken advantage of you right then and there but I decided not to, do you remember that?
Yes, I do.
Well, there's something I never told you about that night.
What didn't you tell me?
While you were sitting there, and the moonlight fell over the house and the garden, softening everything, and a cool breeze started blowing through the garden, I was falling deeply, deeply in love with you, and I never told you until just now.
Now I know.
It seems to me that I never watched the coming of so beautiful an eve, and never felt anything so very much like happiness as at this moment. After all, what a good world we live in! How good, and beautiful! ... Moonlight, and the sentiment in man's heart responsive to it, are the greatest of renovators and reformers [2].
[1] Papa Hawthorne never gave me a first name, so I decided to call myself Nat.]
[2] Hawthorne 149
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