I want you to visit me as a friend, and stay a long time.

There is nobody with me, as I told you before, but Sir Thomas and old Lady Ashby: but you needn't mind them--they'll trouble us but little with their company.

And you shall have a room to yourself, whenever you like to retire to it, and plenty of books to read when my company is not sufficiently amusing.

I forget whether you like babies; if you do, you may have the pleasure of seeing mine--the most charming child in the world, no doubt; and all the more so, that I am not troubled with nursing it--I was determined I wouldn't be bothered with that.

Unfortunately, it is a girl, and Sir Thomas has never forgiven me: but, however, if you will only come, I promise you shall be its governess as soon as it can speak; and you shall bring it up in the way it should go, and make a better woman of it than its mamma.