"No Ma'am, he never said anything about it – So then I asked him to walk into the parlour, and hewas prodigious agreable, and –––

"Whoever he is, said her Mistreſs, he has madea great impreſsion upon you Nanny – But wheredid he come from? and what does he want here? "Oh! Ma'am, I was going to tell you, that I fancyhis busineſs is with you; for he asked me whe::ther you were at leisure to see anybody, anddesired I would give his Compliments to you, &say he should be very happy to wait on you – However I thought he had better not come upinto your Dreſsing room, especially as everything is in such a litter, so I told him if he would be so obliging as to stay in the parlour, I would run up stairs and tell you he was come, andI dared to say that you would wait upon him. Lord Ma'am, I'd lay anything that he is come to ask you to dance with him tonight, & hasgot his Chaise ready to take you to M^r Dudley's."

Kitty could not help laughing at this idea, &