Mrs. Jewkes pitied me for what I had undergone in the day; and I said,
We won't make the worst of it to my dear master, because we won't
exasperate where we would reconcile: but, added I, I am much obliged to
you, Mrs. Jewkes, and I thank you. Said my master, I hope she did not
beat your lady, Mrs. Jewkes? Not much, sir, said she; but I believe I
saved my lady once: Yet, added she, I was most vexed at the young
lord. Ay, Mrs. Jewkes, said my master, let me know his behaviour. I
can chastise him, though I cannot my sister, who is a woman; let me
therefore know the part he acted.

Nothing, my dear sir, said I, but impertinence, if I may so say, and
foolishness, that was very provoking; but I spared him not; and so there
is no room, sir, for your anger. No, sir, said Mrs. Jewkes, nothing else
indeed.

How was her woman? said my master. Pretty impertinent, replied Mrs.
Jewkes, as ladies' women will be. But, said I, you know she saved me
once or twice. Very true, madam, returned Mrs. Jewkes. And she said to
me at table, that you were a sweet creature; she never saw your equal;
but that you had a spirit; and she was sorry you answered her lady so,
who never bore so much contradiction before. I told her, added Mrs.
Jewkes, that if I was in your ladyship's place, I should have taken much
more upon me, and that you were all sweetness. And she said, I was got
over, she saw.

Tuesday morning, the sixth of my happiness.

My master had said to Mrs. Jewkes, that he should not rise till eight
or nine, as he had sat up all the night before: but it seems, my lady,
knowing he usually rose about six, got up soon after that hour; raised
her woman and her nephew; having a whimsical scheme in her head, to try
to find whether we were in bed together: And, about half an hour after
six, she rapped at our chamber door.

My master was waked at the noise, and asked, Who was there? Open the
door, said she; open it this minute! I said, clinging about his neck,
Dear, dear sir, pray, pray don't!--O save me, save me! Don't fear,
Pamela, said he. The woman's mad, I believe.

But he called out; Who are you? What do you want?--You know my voice
well enough, said she:--I will come in.--Pray, sir, said I, don't let
her ladyship in.--Don't be frightened, my dear, said he; she thinks we
are not married, and are afraid to be found a-bed together. I'll let her
in; but she shan't come near my dearest.

So he slipt out of bed, and putting on some of