The thing is too serious to be delayed.

I think (to say nothing either of blood or affection), that humanity and Christianity are interested in my preservation.

I am sure I can answer for my hearty gratitude and everlasting acknowledgment of a service much more important than that of saving my life." In Lady Mary's correspondence there is no further reference to this sorry business, and so it cannot be said how it ended.

Nor can it be decided whether Remond really believed he had been swindled or whether he was just a blackmailer.
The intimacy between Lady Mary and Pope is especially interesting because it culminated in one of the most famous quarrels in the literary annals of this country, and second only to that between Pope and Addison.
When Lady Mary went abroad in 1716 Pope, who always wanted to make the best of both worlds, thought, it has been related by his biographers, of what dramatic situation describing the separation of lovers would best suit him to express his feelings, and he found exactly what he wanted on the supposed authentic letters of Eloisa to Abelard.

Pope sent Lady Mary a volume of his poems, saying: "Among the rest you have all I am worth, that is, my works.