Lady Susan (version 2) — Lady Susan to Mrs Johnson

Upper Seymour Street.

This _éclaircissement_ is rather provoking.

How unlucky that you should have been from home!

I thought myself sure of you at seven!

I am undismayed however.

Do not torment yourself with fears on my account;

depend on it, I can make my story good with Reginald.

Mainwaring is just gone; he brought me the news of his wife’s arrival.

Silly woman, what does she expect by such manoeuvres?

Yet I wish she had stayed quietly at Langford.

Reginald will be a little enraged at first, but by to-morrow’s dinner, everything will be well again.

Adieu!

S.

V. XXXIV

_Mr.

De Courcy to Lady Susan.

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