‘So frame your Letter in a metamorphosis.
‘One Letter you can straight direct to me—
‘Another send to Ludgate, as the Key.
‘That by this means we shall our secret smother,
‘One can’t be understood, without the other.’
’Twas odd enough that Johnny in his mind
Was working at a plan of similar kind.
Dad’s welcome News his spirits did elate,
That he was now a Member of the State.
New hopes were busy in his sanguine breast,