Upon which the good Lord was dismissed, and has not attended the drawing-room since.

You know one cannot help laughing, when one sees him next, and I own I long for that pleasurable moment." To Twickenham came Philip, Duke of Wharton, and leased a villa, later called The Grove, at the farther end of the hamlet from London.

Of all the lads of the village there was none for wildness like unto him.

Born in 1698, and therefore nine years younger than Lady Mary, he had at an early age made himself conspicuous by unbridled excesses.

Soon after the death of his father, Thomas, first Marquess of Wharton, in 1715, his conduct created so much scandal at home, that his guardians sent him abroad in the custody of a tutor.