..."She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should...had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them. " Erik touched his fingers to his lips, then held his hand out to me as if to offer me his formal kiss,...

...that " 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful ... yet she wish'd that heaven had made her such a man," and "bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, /...teach him how to tell my story, / And that would woo her,"58 Henrietta and Louisa respond with "eager admiration," and "exclamations of pity and horror,"...