xxxiii: Lady Susan to Mrs.Johnson

Upper Seymour Street.

This eclaircissement is rather provoking.

How unlucky that you should have been from home! I thought
myself sure of you at seven! I am undismayed however.

Do not torment yourself with fears on my account; depend on it, I
can make my story good with Reginald.

Mainwaring is just gone; he brought me the news of his wife’s arrival.

Silly woman,
what does she expect by such manoeuvres? Yet I wish she had stayed quietly at Langford.

Reginald will be a little enraged
at first, but by to-morrow’s dinner, everything will be well again.

Adieu!

S.V.