Our fatiguing visits, my dear Aza, have had a most agreeable conclusion. I yesterday had a most delightful day, owing to fresh obligations which Deterville and his sister have conferred on me. Oh! with what pleasure shall I share them with you?

After two days respite from noise and tumult, we yesterday morning set out from Paris, Celina, her brother, her husband, and myself, in order to pay a visit, as she said, to a very dear friend of hers in the country. The journey was short, and we arrived pretty soon in the day at a house which was delightfully situated. But I could not help being surprised to find the doors open, and meet nobody.

This house, too pretty to be uninhabited, and too small to conceal the people who lived in it, seemed to me like a little enchanted palace. I could not help diverting myself with the thought, and asking Celina, if we were in the dwelling of one of these Fairies, the history of which I had sometimes read to her, where the lady of the house and her domestics were all invisible?

You shall see the lady, answered she, by and bye; but some affairs of consequence have obliged her to be absent today, and she has desired me to prevail on you to do the honours of her house till her return. Come, says she, laughing, let us see how you will perform? I joined in the joke, and put on a serious air, to pay the compliments which I had heard on such occasions; and they told me I acquitted myself tolerably.

After diverting ourselves some time in this manner, Celina said, This politeness would be enough of itself, at Paris; but, I assure you, Madam, we expect something more in the country, that you should have the hospitality to ask us to dinner.