Having discover'd this folly in Lysetta, which before I could never have imagin'd, I began now to be censorious enough to suspect she might also be guilty of others, and therefore took it into my head to make her some Invisible Visits, at those hours in which it was likely her behaviour was most unguarded.

In order to satisfy my curiosity in this point, I went to her house one morning, and found her very busy in looking over some new pamphlets, which had been just sent her by her bookseller: – as I always thought the most certain way to form a true judgment of a woman's mind, was in the knowledge of what sort of reading she was most delighted with, I was glad to perceive that this lady made choice of only such books as shew'd her neither a wanton or a coquette, and returned all those which by their titles discover'd the least tendency to prophaneness or obscenity.

After this she took her little ivory folding-stick, and began to open the leaves of one which she seem'd most impatient to examine; but before she had gone through half the number of sheets it contain'd, was interrupted by a footman who presented her with a letter, and said the person who brought it waited for an answer; – I slipp'd behind her chair while she broke the seal, and the contents were as follow:

To the honourable Lysetta.

May it please your ladyship,

Madam,

I hope your goodness will pardon the liberty a stranger takes in writing to you; but as I am not so fortunate to be acquainted with any person who can introduce me to your ladyship, I am obliged to become my own sollicitor, and most humbly request you will allow me the privilege of waiting on you this afternoon, if no previous engagement intervenes between me and my desires, having something to communicate which is of the utmost moment to the peace of him who has the honour to be,

With the most profound respect,