On her an equally great effect appears to have been produced.

A warm friendship at once sprang up, and before long Lady Austen had verses addressed to her as Sister Anne.

Her ladyship, on her part, was smitten with a great love of retirement, and at the same time with great admiration for Mr.Scott, the curate of Olney, as a preacher, and she resolved to fit up for herself "that part of our great building which is at present occupied by Dick Coleman, his wife and child, and a thousand rats." That a woman of fashion, accustomed to French salons, should choose such an abode, with a pair of Puritans for her only society, seems to show that one of the Puritans at least must have possessed great powers of attraction.

Better quarters were found for her in the Vicarage; and the private way between the gardens, which apparently had been closed since Newton's departure, was opened again.
Lady Austen's presence evidently wrought on Cowper like an elixir: "From a scene of the most uninterrupted retirement," he writes to Mrs.
Unwin, "we have passed at once into a state of constant engagement.
Not that our society is much multiplied; the addition of an individual has made all this difference.

Lady Austen and we pass our days alternately at each other's Chateau.