public will not be angry because I do not whitewash Caroline, especially as I go along with them altogether in abusing her husband.

But I must not take up your time by sending you another book, though it gratifies me to think that I am writing what none but yourself will read.  Do it yourself, like a dear man, and, as you are great, be merciful.  Or rather, as you are a friend, be loving.

   Yours gratefully and faithfully,

   Matilda Carbury.

After all how few women there are who can raise themselves above the quagmire of what we call love, and make themselves anything but playthings for men.  Of almost all these royal and luxurious sinners it was the chief sin that in some phase of their lives they consented to be playthings without being wives.  I have...