He fell into sentiments with my Lady W., and was happy to catch her at platonic love; but as she seldom stops there, the poor man will be frightened out of his senses when she shall break the matter to him, for he never dreamt that her purposes were so naught.

Lady Mary is so far gone that to get him from the mouth of her antagonist, she literally took him out to dance country dances at a formal ball, where there was no measure kept in laughing at her....

She played at Pharaoh two or three times at Princess Craon's, where she cheats horse and foot.
She is really entertaining: I have been reading her works, which she lends out in manuscript; but they are too womanish: I like few of her performances." [Footnote 10: Lady Pomfret.] [Footnote 11: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.] [Footnote 12: Lady Walpole.] Lady Mary was, of course, entirely ignorant of Horace Walpole's feelings about her, of which naturally he showed no sign in social intercourse with her.

"I saw him often both at Florence and Genoa, and you may believe I know him," she told her daughter.

"I was well acquainted with Mr.Walpole at Florence, and indeed he was particularly civil to me," she wrote on another occasion.