He advised her to go and stop with a friend; and, although no reason is given, it is probable that he, who knew as much as any one of the past, saw that the position of residence with the Hamiltons would be socially untenable for a woman.

Miss Knight accordingly went to live with Mrs.Nepean, the wife of the Secretary to the Admiralty.
A few days later there was again a dinner at the house taken by the Hamiltons in Grosvenor Square.

The Nelsons were there, as was Miss Knight.

The next day several of the party attended the theatre, and Lady Nelson, it is said, fainted in the box, overcome by feeling, many thought, at her husband's marked attentions to Lady Hamilton.

The latter being in her way a character as well known as Nelson himself, the affair necessarily became more than usually a matter of comment, especially as the scene now provided for London gossipers was a re-presentation of that so long enacted at Palermo, and notorious throughout Europe; but it was received with little toleration.