The letter to Lady Arpington was retained.
Gower deferred the further mention of the letter until a visit to the admiral's chamber should furnish an excuse; and he had to wait for it.

Admiral Baldwin's condition was becoming ominous.

He sent messages downstairs by the doctor, forbidding his guest's departure until they two could make the journey together next day.

The tortured and blissful young man, stripped of his borrowed philosopher's cloak, hung conscience-ridden in this delicious bower, which was perceptibly an antechamber of the vaults, offering him the study he thirsted for, shrank from, and mixed with his cup of amorous worship..