r, she came
up to Amy and I, who were hardly out of the fright, and yet were
congratulating one another that Amy was not surprised again.

They paid their visit in form, and I received them as formally, but took
occasion two or three times to hint that I was so ill that I was afraid
I should not be able to go to Holland, at least not so soon as the
captain must go off; and made my compliment how sorry I was to be
disappointed of the advantage of their company and assistance in the
voyage; and sometimes I talked as if I thought I might stay till the
captain returned, and would be ready to go again; then the Quaker put
in, that then I might be too far gone, meaning with child, that I should
not venture at all; and then (as if she should be pleased with it)
added, she hoped I would stay and lie in at her house; so as this
carried its own face with it, 'twas well enough.

But it was now high time to talk of this to my husband, which, however,
was not the greatest difficulty before me; for after this and other chat
had taken up some time, the young fool began her tattle again; and two
or three times she brought it in, that I was so like a lady that she had
the honour to know at the other end of the town, that she could not put
that lady out of her mind when I was by, and once or twice I fancied the
girl was ready to cry; by and by she was at it again, and at last I
plainly saw tears in her eyes; upon which I asked her if the lady was
dead, because she seemed to be in some concern for her. She made me much
easier by her answer than ever she did before; she said she did not
really know, but she believed she was dead.

This, I say, a little relieved my thoughts, but I was soon down again;
for, after some time, the jade began to grow talkative; and as it was
plain that she had told all that her head could retain of Roxana, and
the days of joy which I had spent at that part of the town, another
accident had like to have blown us all up again.

I was in a kind of dishabille when they came, having on a loose robe,
like a morning-gown, but much after the Italian way; and I had not
altered it when I went up, only dressed my head a little; and as I had
been represented as having been lately very ill, so the dress was
becoming enough for a chamber.

This morning vest, or robe, call it as you please, was more shaped to
the body than we wear them since, showing the body in its true shape,
and perhaps a little too plainly if it had b