"MR.

BASSETT--I am sure both yourself and my husband will suffer in public estimation, unless some friend comes between you, and this unhappy lawsuit is given up.
"Do not think me blind nor presumptuous; Sir Charles, when he wrote that letter, had reason to believe you had done him a deep injury by unfair means.

Many will share that opinion if this cause is tried.

You are his cousin, and his heir at law.

I dread to see an unhappy feud inflamed by a public trial.