In the mean time they are permitted to be alone together every day and all the day." Mary's very best vein is the following letter, written about the same time, and also addressed to her sister: "I am yet in this wicked town, but purpose to leave it as soon as the Parliament rises.

Mrs.Murray and all her satellites have so seldom fallen in my way, I can say little about them.

Your old friend Mrs.
Lowther is still fair and young, and in pale pink every night in the Parks; but, after being highly in favour, poor I am in utter disgrace, without my being able to guess wherefore, except she fancied me the author or abettor of two vile ballads written on her dying adventure, which I am so innocent of that I never saw [them].

_A propos_ of ballads, a most delightful one is said or sung in most houses about our dear beloved plot, which has been laid firstly to Pope, and secondly to me, when God knows we have neither of us wit enough to make it.

Mrs.
Hervey lies-in of a female child.