The life of this person, whose name is Clavering, is an obstacle to some designs which had occurred to me in relation to this woman.

My purposes were crude and scarcely formed.

I need not swell the catalogue of my errors by expatiating upon them.

Suffice it to say that the peculiar circumstances of your introduction to me led me to reflections on the use that might be made of your agency, in procuring this lady's acquiescence in my schemes.

You were to be ultimately persuaded to confirm her in the belief that her nephew was dead.