'EXONBURY CRESCENT.
'I return from Mayfair Hall to find you have called. You will, I
know, be good enough to forgive my saying what seems an unfriendly
thing, when I assure you that the circumstances of my peculiar
situation make it desirable, if not necessary. It is that I beg you
not to give me the pleasure of a visit from you for some little time,
for unhappily the frequency of your kind calls has been noticed; and I
am now in fear that we may be talked about--invidiously--to the injury
of us both. The town, or a section of it, has turned its bull's-eye
upon me with a brightness which I did not in the least anticipate; and
you will, I am sure, perceive how indispensable it is that I should be
circumspect.--Yours sincerely,