After this he made me take a maid, and keep house, and his friend that come with him to Bath being gone, he obliged me to diet him, which I did very willingly, believing, as it appeared, that I should lose nothing by it, nor did the woman of the house fail to find her account in it too.
Après cela, il me fit prendre une servante et tenir la maison et, son ami étant parti, il m'obligea à prendre le gouvernement de son ménage, ce que je fis fort volontiers, persuadée, comme il parut bien, que je n'y perdrais rien, et la femme qui nous logeait ne manqua point non plus d'y trouver son compte.