ABSTRACT
I thank you, my dear, for the warm zeal you manifest for my happiness; I will heighten yours by adding, that my dear Major’s conduct is such as con rms me in the idea of his heart being now entirely my own. A week ago he took an opportunity to converse with me upon the subject you mention. He then condemned his former errors in the strongest terms, and spoke with energy and feeling on the dreadful consequences attendant upon guilt./ I saw him a ected by the discourse, therefore requested him to drop it. – He replied,
‘I will, my love, if it gives pain to your feelings; but the event of this day has furnished me with an extraordinary fund for contemplation; which not being likely to a ord any pleasure to my mind, I wished to avoid it by conversing upon the matter with you.’
