Warm dialogues with Lovelace. She is displeased with him for his
affectedly-bashful hints of matrimony. Mutual recriminations. He looks
upon her as his, she says, by a strange sort of obligation, for having
run away with her against her will. Yet but touches on the edges of
matrimony neither. She is sick of herself.

LETTER XXX. From the same.--
Mr. Lovelace a perfect Proteus. He now applauds her for that treatment
of him which before he had resented; and communicates to her two letters,
one from Lady Betty Lawrance, the other from Miss Montague. She wonders
he did not produce those letters before, as he must know they would be
highly acceptable to her.

LETTER XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII. XXXIV. From the same.--
The contents of the letters from Lady Betty and Miss Montague put
Clarissa in good humour with Mr. Lovelace. He hints at marriage; but
pretends to be afraid of pursuing the hint. She is earnest with him to
leave her: and why. He applauds her reasonings. Her serious questions,
and his ludicrous answer.--He makes different proposals.--He offers to
bring Mrs. Norton to her. She is ready to blame herself for her doubts
of him: but gives reasons for her caution.--He writes by her consent to
his friend Doleman, to procure lodgings for her in town.

LETTER XXXV. Lovelace to Belford.--
Glories in his contrivances. Gives an advantageous description of
Clarissa's behaviour. Exults on her mentioning London. None but
impudent girls, he says, should run away with a man. His farther views,
plots, and designs.

LETTER XXXVI. Miss Howe to Clarissa.--