ABSTRACT

By this time lady Mary Vivian began to hear hints of her son’s attachment to Mrs Wharton; and, much alarmed, she repented having encouraged him to form a political or fashionable intimacy with the Whartons. Suddenly awakened to the perception of the danger, lady Mary was too vehement in her terror. a She spoke with so much warmth and indignation, that there was little chance of her counsels being of use.