I force my inclinations to oblige yours; and remember that you have told me I could not oblige you more than by refusing you.

Had I intended ever to see you again, I durst not have sent this letter.

Adieu." The above letter was evidently sent in a fit of pique.

Certainly the position must have been almost unbearable to a young woman of spirit.
Here was Lady Mary, in her twenty-second or twenty-third year, for all practical purposes betrothed, and her father and her lover quarrelling over settlements.

Her friends were all getting married and having establishments of their own, and she more or less in disgrace, living at one or other of her father's houses.
Nothing came of her announcement that she desired no further relation with Montagu.