She threatened to go beyond sea, to throw herself out of window, to drown herself.

To two or three of her associates she owned that she was in love; and on one occasion she plainly said that the man whom she loved was one whom she never could marry.

In fact, the object of her fondness was Spencer Cowper, who was already married.

She at length wrote to him in language which she never would have used if her intellect had not been disordered.

He, like an honest man, took no advantage of her unhappy state of mind, and did his best to avoid her.