On the other hand, there was certainly no especial degree of friendship between them, and in one of her letters Lady Mary said pointedly: "You do not seem desirous to hear news, which makes me not trouble you with any." For the rest there are descriptions of the places which Lady Mary visited and an account of the people she met.
Lady Mary proceeded from Dover to Calais, and thence to Dijon, where she arrived in the middle of August.

Wherever she went she found herself among friends.

"There is not any town in France where there is not English, Scotch or Irish families established; and I have met with people who have seen me (though often such as I do not remember to have seen) in every town I have passed through; and I think the farther I go, the more acquaintance I meet," she told her husband.

At Dijon there were no less than sixteen families of fashion.

Lord Mansel had lodgings in the house with her at Dijon, and Mrs.Whitsted, a daughter of Lord Bathurst, resided in the same street.