with the overcharging dews of the
morning, sunk her head, with a sigh that went to my heart.

All I could think of to re-assure her, when a little recovered, I said.

Why did I not send for their coach, as I had intimated? It might return
in the morning for the ladies.

I had actually done so, I told her, on seeing her strange uneasiness.
But it was then gone to fetch a doctor for Miss Montague, lest his
chariot should not be so ready.

Ah! Lovelace! said she, with a doubting face; anguish in her imploring
eye.

Lady Betty would think it very strange, I told her, if she were to know
it was so disagreeable to her to stay one night for her company in the
house where she had passed so many.

She called me names upon this--she had called me names before.--I was
patient.

Let her go to Lady Betty's lodgings then; directly go; if the person I
called Lady Betty was really Lady Betty.

If, my dear! Good Heaven! What a villain does that IF show you believe
me to be!

I cannot help it--I beseech you once more, let me go to Mrs. Leeson's, if
that IF ought not to be said.

Then assuming a more resolute spirit--I will go! I will inquire my way!
--I will go by myself!--and would have rushed by me.

I folded my arms about her to detain her; pleading the bad way I heard
poor Charlotte was in; and what a farther concern her impatience, if she
went, would give to poor Charlotte.

She would believe nothing I said, unless I would instantly order a coach,
(since she was not to have Lady Betty's, nor was permitted to go to Mrs.
Leeson's,) and let her go in it to Hampstead, late as it was, and all
alone, so much the better; for in the house of people of whom Lady Betty,
upon inquiry, had heard a bad character, [Dropt foolishly this, by my
prating new relation, in order to do credit to herself, by depreciating
others,] every thing, and every face, looking with so much meaning
vileness, as well as my own, [thou art still too sensible, thought I, my
charmer!] she was resolved not to stay another night.

Dreading what might happen as to her intellects, and being very
apprehensive that she might possibly go through a great deal before
morning, (though more violent she could not well be with the worst she
dreaded,) I humoured her, and ordered Will. to endeavour to get a coach
directly, to carry us to Hampstead; I cared not at what price.

Robbers, with whom I would have terrified her, she feared not--I was all
her fear, I fou