 never to carry Enmity higher than upon these Disappointments; again he
will find it written much about the same Place, that a Woman who hath once been
pleased with the Possession of a Man, will go above half way to the Devil, to
prevent any other Woman from enjoying the same.
    If he will not be contented with these Reasons, I freely confess I see no
other Motive to the Actions of that Lady, unless we will conceive she was bribed
by Lord Fellamar, which for my own Part I see no Cause to suspect.
    Now this was the Affair which Mrs. Western was preparing to introduce to
Sophia, by some prefatory Discourse on the Folly of Love, and on the Wisdom of
legal Prostitution for Hire, when her Brother and Blifil broke abruptly in upon
her; and hence arose all that Coldness in her Behaviour to Blifil, which tho'
the Squire, as was usual with him, imputed to a wrong Cause, infused into Blifil
himself, (he being a much more cunning Man) a Suspicion of the real Truth.
 

                                   Chapter IX

                In which Jones pays a Visit to Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
 
The Reader may now perhaps be pleased to return with us to Mr. Jones, who at the
appointed Hour attended on Mrs. Fitzpatrick; but before we relate the
Conversation which now past, it may be proper, according to our Method, to
return a little back, and to account for so great an Alteration of Behaviour in
this Lady, that from changing her Lodging principally to avoid Mr. Jones, she
had now industriously, as hath been seen, sought this Interview.
    And here we shall need only to resort to what happened the preceding Day,
when hearing from Lady Bellaston, that Mr. Western was arrived in Town, she went
to pay her Duty to him, at his Lodgings at Piccadilly, where she was received
with many scurvy Compellations too coarse to be repeated, and was even threatned
to be kicked out of Doors. From hence an old Servant of her Aunt Western, with
whom she was well acquainted, conducted her to the Lodgings of that Lady, who
treated her, not more kindly, but more politely; or, to say the Truth, with
Rudeness in another Way. In short, she returned from both, plainly convinced not
only that her Scheme of Reconciliation had proved abortive, but that she must
for ever give over all Thoughts of bringing it about by any Means whatever. From
this Moment Desire of Revenge only filled her Mind; and in this Temper meeting
Jones at the Play, an Opportunity seemed to her to occur of effecting this
