Hosmer asks Gibson [humorously] not to show the letter to
[William] Boxall, for fear he might feel that the appellation of "beloved" which Hosmer had addressed to Gibson, did not tally with Hosmer's recent declaration to Boxall about her willingness to enter into matrimony with him. Hosmer declares [again, humorously] that if she doesn't soon get some satisfaction out of Gibson or Boxall, she will "try the other experiment" and jilt them all. She hopes Gibson's perilous sea journey had passed off safely, "for God though you are in your studio you remember what you are out of it." Hosmer gives Gibson her address in Paris.