LETTER XXXV. Her open, kind, and instructive answer.

LETTER XXXVI. Lovelace to Belford.--
Uneasy, on a suspicion that her letter to him was a stratagem only. What
he will do, if he find it so.

LETTER XXXVII. Belford to Lovelace.--
Brief account of his proceedings in Belton's affairs. The lady extremely
ill. Thought to be near her end. Has a low-spirited day. Recovers her
spirits; and thinks herself above this world. She bespeaks her coffin.
Confesses that her letter to Lovelace was allegorical only. The light in
which Belford beholds her.

LETTER XXXVIII. Belford to Lovelace.--
An affecting conversation that passed between the lady and Dr. H. She
talks of death, he says, and prepares for it, as if it were an occurrence
as familiar to her as dressing and undressing. Worthy behaviour of the
doctor. She makes observations on the vanity of life, on the wisdom of
an early preparation for death, and on the last behaviour of Belton.

LETTER XXXIX. XL. XLI. Lovelace to Belford.--
Particulars of what passed between himself, Colonel Morden, Lord M., and
Mowbray, on the visit made him by the Colonel. Proposes Belford to Miss
Charlotte Montague, by way of raillery, for an husband.--He encloses
Brand's letter, which misrepresents (from credulity and officiousness,
rather than ill-will) the lady's conduct.

LETTER XLII. Belford to Lovelace.--
Expatiates on the baseness of deluding young creatures, whose confidence
has been obtained by oaths, vows, promises. Evil of censoriousness.