The best means of conveying to me your answer, is by concealing it under the great Statue of St.Francis, which stands in the Capuchin Cathedral.

Thither I go every Thursday to confession, and shall easily have an opportunity of securing your letter.

I hear that you are now absent from Madrid; Need I entreat you to write the very moment of your return?
I will not think it.

Ah! Raymond! Mine is a cruel situation! Deceived by my nearest Relations, compelled to embrace a profession the duties of which I am ill-calculated to perform, conscious of the sanctity of those duties, and seduced into violating them by One whom I least suspected of perfidy, I am now obliged by circumstances to chuse between death and perjury.

Woman's timidity, and maternal affection, permit me not to balance in the choice.