Oh! a little affair--she was persecuted by a boy at a neighbouring school.

Her mistress wrote me word--a very determined Romeo young gentleman indeed--quite alarmed about him.

In the bud! I carried her off on the spot, and snapped it effectually.

Warned he meant to be desperate, I kept her away from my house at Dover four months, place to place; and I did well.

I heard on my return, that a youth, answering to the schoolmistress's description of him, had been calling several times, the first two months and longer.