Lady Susan

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.