Dashed off before George Washington called him to ride (admit it, that's hot!), Hamilton cruelly teased his lover that "A new mistress is supposed to be the best cure for an excessive attachment to an old — if I was convinced of the success of the scheme, I would be tempted to try it — for though it is the pride of my heart to love you it is the torment of it to love you so much, separated as we now are."