So you must come.
Hang me, if I sign by any other name, while this man is in fits, than that of
CHARLOTTE GRANDISON.
LETTER XXIV
MISS BYRON, TO MISS SELBY THURSDAY, APRIL 13.
I send you enclosed a letter I received this morning from Lady G——. I will suppose you have read it.
Emily says, that the meeting between Sir Charles and the lady mentioned in it, was very polite on both sides: but more cold on his than on hers. She made some difficulty, however, of dining at his house; and her aunt, Lady Maffei, more. But on Sir Charles's telling them, that he would bring his elder sister to attend them thither, they complied.
When I went to St. James's-square, Sir Charles and Lady L—— were gone in his coach to bring the two ladies.
Lady G—— met me on the stairs-head, leading into her dressing-room. Not a word, said she, of the man's sullens: He repents: A fine figure, as I told him, of a bridegroom, would he make in the eyes of foreign ladies, at dinner, were he to retain his gloomy airs. He has begged my pardon; as good as promised amendment; and I have forgiven him.
Poor Lord G——, said I.