 that Montague Thorold lodged there, and that it must be him alone who was described as the wounded gentleman.
"And why do you think so, Sir," said he, fiercely, as if poor Farnham had been accessary to it—"and what the devil have you to do to think about it?"
"Lord, Sir," cried Farnham, "only because as I came along I saw my lady's coach at the door where I knew young Mr. Thorold lodges, and just nodded to Sam, who was upon the box."
"Cursed fool!" exclaimed Willoughby—"could you not have asked whether she was there or no: yet why should I desire to know;" added he, rising and walking about with his hands clenched together—"what is it to me?

and why do I torment myself?—Go, Sir, and fetch my powdering gown and my things to dress." Poor Farnham, convinced that Lady Molyneux was right in what she had done, yet rendered doubly timid by the consciousness of having committed a sort of fraud on his master, hastily obeyed.


THE situation of Celestina was rendered infinitely more uneasy to her by the transactions of the last two or three days; and her spirits could no longer support her—The certainty of meeting Willoughby wherever she went, and of meeting him only to be more and more convinced that he had ceased to feel any degree of affection for her, made the thoughts of continuing her present mode of life, which had any charms in her opinion, quite insupportable to her. The conversation about the duel—the questions she should be asked, and the impertinence she must attend to, encreased the aversion with which she thought of appearing again in public; and she determined, at any hazard, to propose to Lady Horatia, that she might go into the

country, and there wait, wherever she pleased, till she should herself quit London.
She took, therefore, the first moment they were alone together, to prefer and urge this request: and after making some objections, which, however, the altered looks and depressed spirits of Celestina very forcibly combated, Lady Horatia consented to her going; but as the house of Jessy was too near Alvestone, where it was supposed Willoughby and his bride were immediately to go after their marriage—it was settled that she should, with a maid to attend her, go to Cheltenham, and wait there till Lady Horatia could leave London, which she proposed doing in a fortnight or three weeks at farthest. This plan being once arranged, Celestina was impatient till it was executed;
