rtments ready furnished [I had told him what they
should be] for a single woman; consisting of a bed-chamber; another for
a maidservant; with the use of a dining-room or parlour. This letter he
gave me to peruse; and then sealed it up, and dispatched it away in my
presence, by one of his own servants, who, having business in town, is
to bring back an answer.

I attend the issue of it; holding myself in readiness to set out for
London, unless you, my dear, advise the contrary.

LETTER XXXV

MR. LOVELACE, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ. SAT., SUNDAY, MONDAY.

He gives, in several letters, the substance of what is
contained in the last seven of the Lady's.

He tells his friend, that calling at The Lawn, in his way to
M. Hall, (for he owns that he went not to Windsor,) he
found the letters from Lady Betty Lawrance, and his cousin
Montague, which Mrs. Greme was about sending to him by a
special messenger.

He gives the particulars, from Mrs. Greme's report, of what
passed between the Lady and her, as in Letter VI. and
makes such declarations to Mrs. Greme of his honour and
affection to the Lady, as put her upon writing the letter to
her sister Sorlings, the contents of which are in Letter
XXVIII.

He then accounts, as follows, for the serious humour he
found her in on his return:

Upon such good terms when we parted, I was surprised to find so solemn a
brow upon my return, and her charming eyes red with weeping. But when I
had understood she had received letters from Miss Howe, it was natural
to imagine that that little devil had put her out of humour with me.

It is easy for me to perceive, that my charmer is more sullen when
she receives, and has perused, a letter from that vixen, than at other
times. But as the sweet maid shews, even then, more of passive grief,
than of active spirit, I hope she is rather lamenting than plotting.
And, indeed, for what now should she plot? when I am become a reformed
man, and am hourly improving in my morals?--Nevertheless, I must
contrive some way or other to get at their correspondence--only to see
the turn of it; that's all.

But no attempt of this kind must be made yet. A detected invasion, in an
article so sacred, would ruin me beyond retrieve. Nevertheless, it vexes
me to the heart to think that she is hourly writing her whole mind on
all that passes between her and me, I under the same roof w