_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.