Our disputes always end in the same manner. I find you in the right, and I am obliged to confess my faults; and I perceive this will ever be the case between us. Yes, my dear friend, you are still right, when the motives of your conduct are explained, however I may find fault with you on the first appearance, in which I constantly see irregularity. Your plans always succeed well in the end. This is at present as much as I can allow you. But I cannot answer for its being my last word upon this subject. You have acted in every respect according to your disposition and sentiments. And though your scheme should not succeed so well as I suppose, you are setting an example, which in these days must have great merit; therefore it is impossible for me to disapprove your conduct any longer. Nothing can be more like than the picture you draw of yourself. At each word I read, I cried out, ‘how true that is!’ And I then said to myself, but how can I love a person so tenderly, who bears so little resemblance to myself! You, who have so much knowledge, must explain this to me. Friendship has its caprices as well as love. All you have told me concerning the education of Madame d’ Ostalis, has struck me in the most lively manner. I sincerely think, there can be no mother who would not be proud of such a daughter; yet from your sentiments I apprehend, if Adelaide has as good a disposition, she will infinitely surpass her. This, however, is a melancholy consideration for eldest daughters, since it is the youngest only who can be compleatly educated. How then is this inconvenience to be remedied? There must be some method, and you ought to employ yourself in finding it out. Think about it, I intreat you.