Being proposed to is all very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing out of his life.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 5. When Dr. John Seward and Quincey Morris declare their love to Lucy, she turns them down because of her strong feelings for Arthur Holmwood. But she feels sad because she loves the two suitors she rejected as friends.