must
your poor daughter do? Now all her hopes are dashed! And if this fails
him, then comes, to be sure, my forced disgrace! for this shews he will
never leave till he has ruined me--O, the wretched, wretched Pamela!

Saturday noon, one o'clock.

My master is come home; and, to be sure, has been where he said. So once
he has told truth; and this matter seems to be gone off without a plot:
No doubt he depends upon his sham wicked marriage! He has brought a
gentleman with him to dinner; and so I have not seen him yet.

Two o'clock.

I am very sorrowful, and still have greater reason; for, just now, as I
was in my closet, opening the parcel I had hid under the rose-bush,
to see if it was damaged by lying so long, Mrs. Jewkes came upon me by
surprise, and laid her hands upon it; for she had been looking through
the key-hole, it seems.

I know not what I shall do! For now he will see all my private thoughts
of him, and all my secrets, as I may say. What a careless creature I
am!--To be sure I deserve to be punished.

You know I had the good luck, by Mr. Williams's means, to send you all
my papers down to Sunday night, the 17th day of my imprisonment. But
now these papers contain all my matters from that time, to Wednesday the
27th day of my distress: And which, as you may now, perhaps, never see,
I will briefly mention the contents to you.

In these papers, then, are included, 'An account of Mrs. Jewkes's arts
to draw me in to approve of Mr. Williams's proposal for marriage; and my
refusing to do so; and desiring you not to encourage his suit to me. Mr.
Williams's being wickedly robbed, and a visit of hers to him; whereby
she discovered all his secrets. How I was inclined to get off, while she
was gone; but was ridiculously prevented by my foolish fears, etc. My
having the key of the back-door. Mrs. Jewkes's writing to my master all
the secrets she had discovered of Mr. Williams, and her behaviour to me
and him upon it. Continuance of my correspondence with Mr. Williams by
the tiles; begun in the parcel you had. My reproaches to him for his
revealing himself to Mrs. Jewkes; and his letter to me in answer,
threatening to expose my master, if he deceived him; mentioning in it
John Arnold's correspondence with him; and a letter which John sent, and
was intercepted, as it seems. Of the correspondence being carried on by
a friend of his at Gainsborough. Of the horse he was to provide for me,
and one for himself. Of wh