In the first place, I was so afraid it would rain this morning, just as I wanted to set off; it looked very showery, and that would have thrown me into agonies! Do you know, I saw the prettiest hat you can imagine, in a shop window in Milsom Street just now--very like yours, only with coquelicot ribbons instead of green; I quite longed for it.

But, my dearest Catherine, what have you been doing with yourself all this morning?
Have you gone on with Udolpho ?" "Yes, I have been reading it ever since I woke; and I am got to the black veil." "Are you, indeed?
How delightful! Oh! I would not tell you what is behind the black veil for the world! Are not you wild to know ?" "Oh! Yes, quite; what can it be?
But do not tell me--I would not be told upon any account.

I know it must be a skeleton, I am sure it is Laurentina's skeleton.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world." "Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you." "Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all ?" "I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook.
Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.
Those will last us some time." "Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid ?" "Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.