The Uncle of Elfrida was the^FatherMother of Frederic; in other words, theywere first cousins by the Father's side.

Being both born in one day & bothbrought up at one school, it was notwonderfull that they should look on eachother with something more than bare po::litenneſs. They loved with mutual sin::cerity but were both determined not totransgreſs the rules of Propriety by owningtheir attachment, ^^{either to the object beloved,^or[.]} to any one else.