we entered the room, that I felt for her exceedingly. Lady Susan behaved with great attention to herVisitor, & yet I thought I could perceive that shehad no particular pleasure in seeing him. — Sir James talked a good deal, & made many civil excuses to me for the liberty he had taken in com::ing to Churchill, mixing more frequent laughterwith his discourse than the subject required; — said many things over & over again, & told Lady Susanthree times that he had seen M^rs . Johnson a fewEvenings before. — He now & then addreſsed Frederica,but more frequently her Mother. — The poor girlsat all this time without opening her lips; — her eyes cast down, & her colour varying every instant,while Reginald observed all that paſsed, in perfectsilence. —

At length Lady Susan, weary I beleive of her situation, proposed walking, & we left thetwo Gentlemen together to put on our Peliſses. —