for an answer, or to remember that what he had said required one. They entered the small vestibulewhich M^r Dudley had raised to the Dignity of a Hall, & Kitty immediately desired the footman who wasleading the way upstairs, to inform either M^rs Pe::terson, or M^rs Stanley of her arrival, & beg them to come to her, but Stanley unused to any contradiction & impatient to be amongst them, would neither allow her to wait, or listen to what she said, & forcibly seiz::ing her arm within his, overpowered her voice withthe rapidity of heriss¹ own, & Kitty half angry, & half laughing was obliged to go with him up stairs, andcould even with difficulty[.]² prevail on him to relin::quish her hand before they entered the room. M^rsPercival Peterson was at that very moment engaged inconversation with a Lady at the upper end of the room, to whom she had been giving a long accountof her Neice's unlucky disappointment, & the dread::ful pain that she had with so much fortitude, enduredthe whole Day –"I left her however, said She, thank heaven!, a little better, and I hope she has been ableto amuse herself with a [.]book³, poor thing ,!⁴ for she