about noon
Charlotte should see that her love was no light thing for any man to relinquish : she would find that it weighed heavier in the balance than riches , than fame ; that disgrace even could not crush it down . Knowing all , he would go to her ; she should not be alone in her great , great trouble ; she should find out in her hour of need the kind of man whose heart she had won . His depression left him as he came to this resolve , and he scarcely spent even an anxious night . On the next day , however , he did not go to Charlotte ; but about noon he sat down and wrote her the following letter : -- MY DARLING : You gave me up yesterday . I was -- I do n't mind telling you this now -- stunned , surprised , pained . Since then , however , I have thought much ; all my thought has been about you . Thought sometimes leads to light , and light has come to me .