 you have my Answer to that
already, said I; besides, Sir, said I, can you think so ill of me, as that I
wou'd give any Answer to such a Question before hand? Can any Woman alive
believe you in earnest, or think you design any thing but to banter her?
    Well, well, says he, I do not banter you, I am in earnest, consider of it.
    But, Sir, says I, a little gravely, I came to you about my own Business, I
beg of you to let me know, what you will advise me to do?
    I will be prepar'd, says he, against you come again.
    Nay, says I, you have forbid my coming any more.
    Why so? said he, and look'd a little surpriz'd.
    Because, said I, you can't expect I should visit you on the account you talk
of.
    Well, says he, you shall promise to come again however, and I will not say
any more of it till I have the Divorce, but I desire you'll prepare to be better
condition'd when that's done, for you shall be the Woman, or I will not be
Divorc'd at all: I owe it to your unlooked for kindness, if to nothing else, but
I have other Reasons too.
    He could not have said anything in the World that pleas'd me better;
however, I knew that the way to secure him was to stand off while the thing was
so remote, as it appear'd to be, and that it was time enough to accept of it
when he was able to perform it; so I said very respectfully to him, it was time
enough to consider of these things, when he was in a Condition to talk of them;
in the mean time I told him, I was going a great way from him, and he would find
Objects enough to please him better: We broke off here for the present, and he
made me promise him to come again the next Day, for my own Business, which after
some pressing I did; tho' had he seen farther into me, I wanted no pressing on
that Account.
    I came the next Evening accordingly, and brought my Maid with me, to let him
see that I kept a Maid: He would have had me let the Maid have staid, but I
would not, but order'd her aloud to come for me again about Nine a Clock, but he
