add Disobedience to the Crime by which you have already mortally offended
Arabella.
The Superscription of this Letter, and the uncommon
Style of it, persuaded Mr. Glanville,
that what he had been foolish enough to resent
as an Affront, was designed as a Jest, and
meant to divert him as well as herself: He examined
her Behaviour again, and wondered at
his Stupidity in not discovering it before. His
Resentment vanishing immediately, he returned
to the House; and went, without Ceremony,
to Arabella's Apartment, which he entered before
she perceived him, being in a profound
Musing at one of the Windows: The Noise he
made, in approaching her, obliged her at last
to look up; when, starting, as if she had seen a
Basilisk, she flew to her Closet, and, shutting the
Door with great Violence, commanded him to
leave her Chamber immediately.
Mr. Glanville, still supposing her in Jest, intreated her to open the Door; but, finding she continued obstinate, Well, said he, going away, I shall be revenged on you some time hence, and make you repent the Tricks you play me now.
Arabella not being able to imagine any thing, by these Words he spoke in Raillery, but that he really, in the Spite and Anguish of his Heart, threatened her with executing some terrible Enterprize; she did not doubt, but he either intended to carry her away; or, thinking her Aversion to him proceeded from his having a Rival happy enough to be esteemed by her, those
