It was within a few steps of hisown door. – "You are going to call upon my wife, said he, she willbe very glad to see you." — Anne^{denied it. —"1}said —No — she really had not time,she was in her way home" — butwhile she spoke, the Adm^l .Admiral had steppedback & knocked at the door, ^{calling out}saying, "Yes, yes, do go in;^{She is all alone.} go & in & restyourself." — Anne felt so little dis::posed ^{at this time to be in} for any company but that ^{company of any sort, that it} of her own thoughts, that she was^{vexed her}really sorry to be thus constrained —but she was now obliged to stop. "Since you are ^so^ very so kind, ^criedsaid^said she, I will just ask M^rs . Croft how she does, but I really cannotstay 5 minutes. — You are sureshe is quite alone." —^{The poſsibility of}She hadCap^t .W.Wentworth^{had occurred — and most}in her thoughts at this moment;& was fearfully anxious^^{was she} to beaſsured — either that he was withinor that he was not; —^butwhich,she could not^{might have been a question.}have told which herself. —"Oh! yes,quite alone — Nobody ^butby herMantuamaker with her, & they have been shut up together this half hour, so it must be oversoon."–––