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underline are the Expressions You made use of in my Closet at the Queens House. /underline & I thought them so proper that I endeavoured to act up to them implicitly as a real proof of my Affection for You. which I have proved by always informing You when she was either Visited or invited by me: & as You have met with the Princess both at St James & the Queens House Upon Public Days I judged that a meeting at Frogmore could not be of more consequence, add to that, that we owe something to the Public in whose power we always are & though I am for above wishing to gain Popularity by improper means, I should likewise not choose to lose the good opinion of the World by glaring incivility to any Body.

Your Absence must of Course let the Day be ever so bright throw a Cloud over it, You know