ABSTRACT
CELESTINA, finding that Montague Thorold did not join the party, constrained herself to stay with them, lesta it should be imagined they were together. Captain Thorold, as if he took advantage of his brother’s absence, sat down by her, and began in a half whisper to make her some of those speeches, between a sneer and a compliment, which always confused and distressed her. Soon after tea, however, Montague came in, and then, the evening being rainy, cards were proposed, to which his mother desired him to sit down; while Celestina, saying she had a few preparations to make for her journey which she might as well begin in time, went away, nobody asking her to take a seat at the card table.
