If you do agree, I shall endeavour to contribute, as much as lies in my power, to your happiness.
I so heartily despise a great figure, I have no notion of spending money so foolishly; though one had a great deal to throw away.

If this breaks off, I shall not complain of you: and as, whatever happens, I shall still preserve the opinion you have behaved yourself well.

Let me entreat you, if I have committed any follies, to forgive them; and be so just to think I would not do an ill thing." Shortly afterwards, Lady Mary wrote again to Montagu.

"I have tried to write plainly," she said; and she did not have to reproach herself with failure.

It had now come to a struggle for mastery, and she would not yield a foot of her ground.
"Indeed I do not at all wonder that absence, and variety of new faces, should make you forget me; but I am a little surprised at your curiosity to know what passes in my heart (a thing wholly insignificant to you), except you propose to yourself a piece of ill-natured satisfaction, in finding me very much disquieted.