LETTER XLV. To the same, as Captain Tomlinson.—Calculated to be shown to the lady, as in confidence.
LETTER XLVI. M’Donald to Lovelace.—Goes to attend the lady according to direction. Finds the house in an uproar; and the lady escaped.
LETTER XLVII. Mowbray to Lovelace.—With the same news.
LETTER XLVIII. Belford to Lovelace.—Ample particulars of the lady’s escape. Makes serious reflections on the distress she must be in; and on his (Lovelace’s) ungrateful usage of her. What he takes the sum of religion.
LETTER XLIX. Lovelace to Belford.—Runs into affected levity and ridicule, yet at last owns all his gayety but counterfeit. Regrets his baseness to the lady. Inveighs against the women for their instigations. Will still marry her, if she can be found out. One misfortune seldom comes alone; Lord M. is recovering. He had bespoken mourning for him.
LETTER L. Clarissa to Miss Howe.—Writes with incoherence, to inquire after her health. Lets her know whither to direct to her. But forgets, in her rambling, her private address. By which means her letter falls into the hands of Miss Howe’s mother.
LETTER LI. Mrs. Howe to Clarissa.—Reproaches her for making all her friends unhappy. Forbids her to write any more to her daughter.
LETTER LII. Clarissa’s meek reply.
LETTER LIII. Clarissa to Hannah Burton.
LETTER LIV. Hannah Burton. In answer.