At first he kept the parody very close: though the necessary transposition of the parts afforded opportunity (amply taken) for display of character and knowledge of nature superior to Richardson's own.

Later the general opinion is that he, especially inspirited by his _trouvaille_ of Adams, almost forgot the parody, and only furbished up the _Pamela_-connection at the end to make a formal correspondence with the beginning, and to get a convenient and conventional "curtain." I am not so sure of this.

Even Adams is to a certain extent suggested by Williams, though they turn out such very different persons.

Mrs.Slipslop, a character, as Gray saw, not so very far inferior to Adams, is not only a parallel to Mrs.Jewkes, but also, and much more, a contrast to the respectable Mrs.Jervis and Mrs.
Warden.

All sorts of fantastic and not-fantastic doublets may be traced throughout: and I am not certain that Parson Trulliber's majestic doctrine that no man, even in his own house, shall drink when he "caaled vurst" is not a demoniacally ingenious travesty of Pamela's characteristic casuistry, when she says that she will do anything to propitiate Lady Davers, but she will not "fill wine" to her in her own husband's house.
But this matters little: and we have no room for it.