ABSTRACT
In the first letter Lady Torrendale wrote to Matilda from Tunbridge, it appeared as if her ladyship purposed a longer stay than she had at first hinted. The earl intended to try the waters for three or four months, and his lady declared herself unwilling to leave him. She, however, gave no hint of a wish that Emily should join the party, but on the contrary seemed fully satisfied that she was better at Mrs. / Melbourne’s, without once giving herself the trouble to enquire, whether her stay was convenient or agreeable to that lady or not. True to her own character, it sufficed that it might be so to her; and she did not find it any thing unreasonable or extraordinary, that those, whose acquaintance she at one time seemed almost desirous of dropping, should at another confer on her the most important and essential benefit.
