I called just now, and found the lady writing to Miss Howe. She made me
a melancholy compliment, that she showed me not Miss Howe's letter,
because I should soon have that and all her papers before me. But she
told me that Miss Howe had very considerably obviated to Colonel Morden
several things which might have occasioned misapprehensions between him
and me; and had likewise put a lighter construction, for the sake of
peace, on some of your actions than they deserved.
She added, that her cousin Morden was warmly engaged in her favour with
her friends: and one good piece of news Miss Howe's letter contained,
that her father would give up some matters, which (appertaining to her of
right) would make my executorship the easier in some particulars that had
given her a little pain.
She owned she had been obliged to leave off (in the letter she was
writing) through weakness.
Will. says he shall reach you to-night. I shall send in the morning;
and, if I find her not worse, will ride to Edgware, and return in the
afternoon.