Digby’s betrayal was, Burney wrote, a ‘catastrophe’. She determined not to reveal her distress or even to show concern within the court, keeping her misery and turbulent conjectures about Digby’s motives to her letters. Claire Harman wrote in Fanny Burney (2000) that ‘Digby, in the time-honoured way of the male in such circumstances, avoided Fanny like the plague thereafter.’ The full publication of the Court Journal for 1789 in 2016 reveals that the very reverse of this is true. Digby persisted in seeking occasions for conversation with Miss Burney over the next year. In fact he paid Burney a visit ten days after she heard the news of his engagement to Miss Gunning: she received him with grim and chilly formality. This visit and his later persistence only deepen the mystery of his motives.