you all this alarm. — I know not why she shouldchuse to make herself & her family uneasy byapprehending an Event, which no one but herselfI can affirm, would ever have thought poſsible. To impute such a design to Lady Susan would be tak::ing from her every claim to that excellent under::standing which her bitterest Enemies have never de::nied her; & equally low must sink my pretensions to common sense, if I am suspected of matrimonialveiws in my behaviour to her. – Our difference of age must be an insuperable objection, & I entreat you my dear Sir to quiet your mind, & no longer harbour a suspicion which cannot be more inju::rious to your own peace, than to our Understandings.

I can have no veiw in remaining with Lady Susan than to enjoy for a short time (as youhave yourself expreſsed it) the conversation of a Wo::man