Lewis not only performed the task satisfactorily, but found incidental diversion that led to matrimony.
Every visitor records that the Farmer was a kind and considerate host.
Elkanah Watson relates that one bitter winter night at Mount Vernon, having a severe cold that caused him to cough incessantly, he heard the door of his chamber open gently and there stood the General with a candle in one hand and a bowl of hot tea in another.

Doubtless George and Martha had heard the coughing and in family council had decided that their guest must have attention.
Washington was a Cavalier, not a Puritan, and had none of the old New England prejudice against the theater.

In fact, it was one of his fondest pleasures from youth to old age.

In his Barbadoes journal he records being "treated with a play ticket by Mr.Carter to see the Tragedy of George Barnwell acted." In 1752 he attended a performance at Fredericksburg and thereafter, whenever occasion offered, which during his earlier years was not often, he took advantage of it.

He even expressed a desire to act himself.