However, as he saw there was more form and cere-
mony in my resistance than good earnest, he made his condi-
tions for desisting from pursuing his point that I should
be put instantly to bed, whilst he gave certain orders to
the landlady, and that he would return in an hour, when he
hoped to find me more recondil'd to his passion for me
than I seem'd at present. I neither assented nor deny'd,
but my air and manner of receiving this proposal gave him
to see that I did not think myself enough my own mistress
to refuse it.
Accordingly he went out and left me, when, a minute or
two after, before I could recover myself into any composure
for thinking, the maid came in with her mistress's service,
and a small silver porringer of what she called a bridal
posset, and desir'd me to eat it as I went to bed, which
consequently I did, and felt immediately a heat, a fire run
like a hue-and-cry thro' every part of my body; I burnt,
I glow'd, and wanted even little of wishing for any man.
The maid, as soon as I was lain down, took the candle
away, and wishing me a good night, went out of the room
and shut the door after her.
She had hardly time to get down-stairs before Mr. H .
. . open'd my room-door softly, and came in, now undress'd
in his night-gown and cap, with two lighted wax candles,
and bolting the door, gave me, tho' I expected him, some
sort of alarm.
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