I sent my gentleman a short letter, therefore, that I had obeyed his orders in all things but that of going back to the Bath, which I could not think of for many reasons; that however parting from him was a wound to me that I could never recover, yet that I was fully satisfied his reflections were just, and would be very far from desiring to obstruct his reformation or repentance.
J'écrivis donc à mon monsieur une courte lettre où je lui disais que j'avais obéi à ses ordres en toutes choses, sauf sur le point de mon retour à Bath; que bien que notre séparation fut pour moi un coup dont je ne pourrais jamais me remettre, pourtant j'étais entièrement persuadée que ses réflexions étaient justes et que je serais bien loin de désirer m'opposer à sa réforme.