y promised me all that I desired; and, in a word, to cut the story
short, I let her go, but tied her up to so many particulars that it was
almost impossible her going could signify anything; and had she intended
to observe them, she might as well have stayed at home as have gone, for
I charged her, if she came to see him, she should not so much as take
notice that she knew him again; and if he spoke to her, she should tell
him she was come away from me a great many years ago, and knew nothing
what was become of me; that she had been come over to France six years
ago, and was married there, and lived at Calais; or to that purpose.

Amy promised me nothing, indeed; for, as she said, it was impossible for
her to resolve what would be fit to do, or not to do, till she was there
upon the spot, and had found out the gentleman, or heard of him; but
that then, if I would trust her, as I had always done, she would answer
for it that she would do nothing but what should be for my interest,
and what she would hope I should be very well pleased with.

With this general commission, Amy, notwithstanding she had been so
frighted at the sea, ventured her carcass once more by water, and away
she goes to France. She had four articles of confidence in charge to
inquire after for me, and, as I found by her, she had one for herself--I
say, four for me, because, though her first and principal errand was to
inform myself of my Dutch merchant, yet I gave her in charge to inquire,
second, after my husband, who I left a trooper in the _gens d'armes_;
third, after that rogue of a Jew, whose very name I hated, and of whose
face I had such a frightful idea that Satan himself could not
counterfeit a worse; and, lastly, after my foreign prince. And she
discharged herself very well of them all, though not so successful as I
wished.

Amy had a very good passage over the sea, and I had a letter from her,
from Calais, in three days after she went from London. When she came to
Paris she wrote me an account, that as to her first and most important
inquiry, which was after the Dutch merchant, her account was, that he
had returned to Paris, lived three years there, and quitting that city,
went to live at Rouen; so away goes Amy for Rouen.

But as she was going to bespeak a place in the coach to Rouen, she meets
very accidentally in the street with her gentleman, as I called
him--that is to say, the Prince de ----'s gentleman, who had been her
favourite, a