After tea, and taking a turn in the garden, my particular, who was the master of the house, and had in no sense schem'd this party of pleasure for a dry one; propos'd to us, with that frankness which his familiarity at Mrs. Cole's entitled him to, as the weather was excessive hot, to bathe together, under a commodious shelter that he had prepar'd expresly for that purpose, in a creek of the river, with which a side-door of the pavilion immediately communicated, and where we might be sure of having our diversion out, safe from interruption, and with the utmost privacy.
Emily, who never refus'd any thing, and I, who ever delighted in bathing, and had no exception to the person who propos'd it, or to those pleasures it was easy to guess it implied, took care, on this occasion, not to wrong our training at Mrs. Cole's, and agreed to it, with as good a grace as we could. Upon which, without loss of time, we return'd instantly to the pavilion, one door of which open'd
