Miss Leigh was by this time all fire and flame to see her heavenly harmony thus slighted; and when they returned, told them she did not understand playing to an empty room.

Mr.Edgcombe begged ten thousand pardons, and said, if she would play _Godi_, it was a tune he died to hear, and it would be an obligation he should never forget.

She made answer she would do him a much greater favour by her absence, which she supposed was all that was necessary at that time; and ran down stairs in a great fury to publish as fast as she could; and was so indefatigable in this pious design, that in four-and-twenty hours all the people in town had heard the story.

My Lady Sunderland could not avoid hearing this story, and three days after, invited Miss Leigh to dinner, where, in the presence of her sister and all the servants, she told her she was very sorry she had been so rudely treated in her house; that it was very true Mr.Edgcombe had been a perpetual companion of her sister's these two years, and she thought it high time he should explain himself, and she expected her sister should act in this matter as discreetly as Lady K.[Katherine] Pelham had done in the like case; who had given Mr.Pelham four months to resolve in, and after that he was either to marry her or to lose her for ever.

Sir Robert Sutton interrupted her by saying, that he never doubted the honour of Mr.
Edgcombe, and was persuaded he could have no ill design in his family.
The affair stands thus, and Mr.Edgcombe has four months to provide himself elsewhere; during which time he has free egress and regress; and 'tis seriously the opinion of many that a wedding will in good earnest be brought about by this admirable conduct.
"I send you a novel instead of a letter, but, as it is in your power to shorten it when you please, by reading no farther than you like, I will make no excuses for the length of it." Lady Mary had contracted an intimacy with Griselda Baillie, the wife of Mr.( afterwards Sir A.) Murray, of Stanhope, after her return from abroad, and there is frequent mention of her in the correspondence; but the friendship came to an abrupt end in 1725.
"Among the rest a very odd whim has entered the little head of Mrs.
Murray: do you know she won't visit me this winter ?" Lady Mary wrote to Lady Mar.