In her answer, she says:  “Oh, frail woman!  No steps can be recalled.  It is all in the future to make amends for the past.  After all the good counsel some receive, they return to habits of vice.  They repent when it is too late.  How true it is that virtue has its reward, and vice its punishment.  I know that the way of transgressors is hard.  If I only had a few years of my life to live over again, how different would I live!  For the many blessings Providence has bestowed on me, may I be grateful.  In all my troubles, He has raised me up a friend.  I believe He never forsakes me; so there is hope for me.  Don’t be discouraged that you befriended me; for, with God’s blessing, you shall have no reason to repent of it.”

He wrote thus to her, a short time after:  “I very often think of thee, and I yet hope that I shall one day see thee a happy and respectable woman.  I have lately had a good deal of conversation with the Governor concerning ‘my friends,’ as he calls those whom he has pardoned at my request.  I did not tell him thou hadst behaved incorrectly.  I hope I shall never be obliged to do so.  I have had pleasant accounts concerning thee lately, and I do not wish to remember that thou hast ever grieved me.  As I passed down the river yesterday, from Albany, I saw Bloomingdale Asylum.  I remembered how I used to walk with thee about the grounds; and my mind was for a time depressed with melancholy reflections.  I had deeply sympathized in thy sufferings; and I had rarely, if ever, experienced greater pleasure than when I was the happy messenger of thy redemption from the grievous thraldom, under which thou wert suffering.  Thou art blessed with more than common good sense, and thou knowest how to make thyself agreeable.  I earnestly advise thee to guard well thy thoughts.  Never allow thyself to use an immodest word, or to be guilty of an unbecoming action.  On all occasions, show thyself worthy of the regard of those who feel an interest in thy welfare.  ’There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.’  With ardent solicitude for thy welfare, I remain thy sincere friend.”

About two years afterward, Friend Hopper made the following record in his Register:  “J.P. continues to conduct very satisfactorily.  She makes a very respectable appearance, is modest and discreet in her deportment, and industrious in her habits.  As a mark of gratitude for the attentions, which at different times I have extended to her, she has sent me a pair of handsome gloves, and a bandana handkerchief.  Taking into consideration all the circumstances attending this case, this small present affords me much more gratification than ten times the value from any other person.”  Six months later, he made this record:  “The Friend, with whom J.P. lives, called upon me to say that she sent a world of love to Isaac T. Hopper, whose kindness she holds in grateful remembrance.”  The same Friend afterward wrote, “She is all that I could wish her to be.”