From time to time they hired houses in other parts of Yorkshire.

The honeymoon lasted from August until October, 1712, when Montagu had to go to Westminster.
The first letter of this period is dated characteristically: "Walling Wells, October 22, which is the first post I could write.

Monday night being so fatigued and sick I went straight to bed from the coach." It starts: "I don't know very well how to begin; I am perfectly unacquainted with a proper matrimonial stile.

After all, I think 'tis best to write as if we were not married at all.

I lament your absence, as if you were still my lover, and I am impatient to hear you are got safe to Durham, and that you have fixed a time for your return." Marriage made Lady Mary more human.