whether such a young woman has been inquiring for thee. He may go out
betimes in the morning, and may return by night, for it is but twelve
or fourteen miles at farthest thither.

_Roxana._ I like thy scheme very well; and I beg the favour of you in
the morning, as soon as you are up, to send Tom to Dover, with such
instructions as you shall think proper.

After a good night's repose I was well recovered, to the great
satisfaction of all that were with me.

The good-natured Quaker, always studious to serve and oblige me, got up
about five o'clock in the morning, and going down into the inn-yard, met
with Tom, gave him his instructions, and he set out for Dover before six
o'clock.

As we were at the best inn in the city, so we could readily have
whatever we pleased, and whatever the season afforded; but my husband,
the most indulgent man that ever breathed, having observed how heartily
I ate my dinner at Rochester two days before, ordered the very same bill
of fare, and of which I made a heartier meal than I did before. We were
very merry, and after we had dined, we went to see the town-house, but
as it was near five o'clock I left the Quaker behind me, to receive what
intelligence she could get concerning my daughter, from the footman, who
was expected to return from Dover at six.

We came to the inn just as it was dark, and then excusing myself to my
husband, I immediately ran up into my chamber, where I had appointed the
Quaker to be against my return. I ran to her with eagerness, and
inquired what news from Dover, by Tom, the footman.

She said, Tom had been returned two hours; that he got to Dover that
morning between seven and eight, and found, at the inn he put up at,
there had been an inquisitive young woman to find out a gentleman that
was a Dutch merchant, and a lady who was her mother; that the young
woman perfectly well described his lady; that he found that she had
visited every public inn in the town; that she said she would go to
Deal, and that if she did not find the lady, her mother, there, she
would go by the first ship to the Hague, and go from thence, to
Amsterdam and Rotterdam, searching all the towns through which she
passed in the United Provinces.

This account pleased me very well, especially when I understood that she
had been gone from Dover five days. The Quaker comforted me, and said it
was lucky this busy creature had passed the road before us, otherwise
she might easily have found