Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded

So she said, I will then lie in the best room, as it is called; and

Jackey shall lie in the little green room adjoining to it. Has thy

master got the keys of those?--No, madam, said Mrs. Jewkes: I will order

them to be made ready for your ladyship.

And where dost thou lay they pursy sides? said she. Up two pair of

stairs, madam, next the garden. And where lies the young harlotry?

continued she. Sometimes with me, madam, said she. And sometimes with

thy virtuous master, I suppose? said my lady.--Ha, woman! what sayest

thou? I must not speak, said Mrs. Jewkes. Well, thou mayest go, said

she; but thou hast the air of a secret keeper of that sort I dare say

thoul't set the good work forward most cordially. Poor Mrs. Jewkes, said

my master, and laughed most heartily.

This talk we had whilst we were undressing. So she and her woman lay

together in the room my master lay in before I was happy. I said, Dear sir, pray, in the morning let me lock myself up in the

closet, as soon as you rise; and not be called down for ever so much;

for I am afraid to see her ladyship: And I will employ myself about my

journal, while these things are in my head. Don't be afraid, my dear,

said he: Am not I with you?

Mrs. Jewkes pitied me for what I had undergone in the day; and I said,

We won't make the worst of it to my dear master, because we won't

exasperate where we would reconcile: but, added I, I am much obliged to

you, Mrs. Jewkes, and I thank you. Said my master, I hope she did not

beat your lady, Mrs. Jewkes? Not much, sir, said she; but I believe I

saved my lady once: Yet, added she, I was most vexed at the young

lord. Ay, Mrs. Jewkes, said my master, let me know his behaviour. I

can chastise him, though I cannot my sister, who is a woman; let me

therefore know the part he acted.

Nothing, my dear sir, said I, but impertinence, if I may so say, and

foolishness, that was very provoking; but I spared him not; and so there

is no room, sir, for your anger. No, sir, said Mrs. Jewkes, nothing else

indeed. How was her woman? said my master. Pretty impertinent, replied Mrs.

Jewkes, as ladies' women will be. But, said I, you know she saved me

once or twice. Very true, madam, returned Mrs. Jewkes. And she said to

me at table, that you were a sweet creature; she never saw your equal;

but that you had a spirit; and she was sorry you answered her lady so,

who never bore so much contradiction before. I told her, added Mrs.

Jewkes, that if I was in your ladyship's place, I should have taken much

more upon me, and that you were all sweetness. And she said, I was got

over, she saw. Tuesday morning, the sixth of my happiness.