“But how could you manage that?”
“By means of a brother, sir.”
“O!—you confided in a brother, then?”
“Yes, sir,—that is, for the publication.”
“What entertainment you must have had from hearing people's conjectures, before you were known! Do you remember any of them?”
“Yes, sir, many.”
“And what?”
“I heard that Mr. Baretti[194] laid a wager it was written by a man for no woman, he said, could have kept her own counsel.”
This diverted him extremely.
“But how was it,” he continued, “you thought most likely for your father to discover you?”