“I must recommend you to act as if a time might possibly arise when it would be necessary for you to justify yourself, though nothing short of an absolute necessity so imperative as to be irresistible could ever authorise your advertence to your present communications. Still I cannot dismiss from my mind the experience we have had nor so far forget the very serious embarrassment we were under from the effects of your too confiding disposition, as not to implore you to bear in mind the importance of securing yourself from eventual danger. This is my first object—and if that be attained—I shall approve and applaud all the kindness you can show.”
