Indeed they almost always desire a stranger who has been introduced to them "to be free." This is their usual expression.

And if he assures them that he will, and if they find him asking for what he wishes to have, you may perceive in their countenances the pleasure, which his conduct has given them.

They consider him, when he has used this freedom, to have acted as they express it "kindly." Nothing can be more truly polite than that conduct to another, by which he shall be induced to feel himself as comfortably situated, as if he were in his own house.
As the Quakers desire their visitors to be free, and to do as they please, so they do not fail to do the same themselves, never regarding such visitors as impediments in the way of their concerns.

If they have any business or engagement out of doors, they say so and go, using no ceremony, and but few words as an apology.

Their visitors, I mean such as stay for a time in their houses, are left in the interim to amuse themselves as they please.