In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: 'It isn't, really it isn't, merely because you are so beautiful - though of course that is a large reason & so it should be - that I love you: it is your mind & your character - I have never known anyone like you in that - won't you believe me?'
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (ed. Cambridge University Press, 2006) - ISBN: 9781139457880