The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
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LETTER I
Two o’Clock [Paris, June 1793].
My dear love, after making my arrangements for our snug dinner to-day, I have been taken by storm, and obliged to promise to dine, at an early hour, with the Miss ——s, the only day they intend to pass here. I shall however leave the key in the door, and hope to find you at my fire-side when I return, about eight o’clock. Will you not wait for poor Joan?—whom you will find better, and till then think very affectionately of her.
Yours, truly, Mary.
I am sitting down to dinner; so do not send an answer.
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