wholly paid in one year and a half:  £ 1000 on the day of signing, another that day month, the remaining three £ 500 at six months each.
From the manner in which our property was situated, it was impossible to call in two thousand at so short a notice, Mr. G. therefore requested you (until such time as we could get the money from those who owed it us,) to lend him a thousand pounds, you consented to do so, exacting a promise that the moment he could pay you he should.
You know, Madam, I was not happy at the circumstance, the repugnance I felt at any further seeming obligations to you was extreme, but I was forced to give way.
The next thing to be settled was what security to give you. Mr. G. proposed to get a friend to join him in a bond to you. One dear and only friend I had, whom I could ask such a favour of; in an hour, the most fatal of my life I did so; this generous friend consented; but wou1d not allow the bond to be made payable sooner than in seven years; alleging that did not exclude your being paid before, if it was in our power.
You desired that bond should. be made to Miss W. and not you, as you wished to keep it a profound secret, particularly from Mr. Siddons, your having lent Mr. G. the money. You seemed so much offended that my friend would not sign a bond for a shorter date, that you wrote a letter in the most imperious terms, addressed to us both, in which you forbade me ever seeing you again.
When Mr. G. went to arrange your engagements for the summer, at those theatres in which he was now united with Mr.

M'Cready, you refused to see him.
I at this time left town for Newcastle, while I was there letters arrived from Mr. Siddons to Mr. M'Cready, endeavouring to persuade. him to resign your engagement, I did not then know, nor could I guess the cause of all this sudden and violent conduct.
As your engagement could not be dispensed with, you were obliged to visit Birmingham and Manchester the following summer; when at the former place we met, I had gone to town for a few days, and on my return found you living in the house I also lodged in, Miss W. met me on the instant of my arrival, to my surprise, in the most friendly manner. After the treatment I had received from you, I wished to decline all conversation with her, but she would force it on me.
I saw she wanted to do away the letter you had written; she endeavoured to blame me for having in my answer used these words, " few women in my situation would have acted by you as I have done; " I supported the truth of my observation so strongly, that she had nothing to reply to it; she then said you were sorry for what you had done, and requested all might be forgotten, she pressed, nay insisted I should spend the evening with you.
I reluctantly consented, you met me with more warmth and seeming kindness, than I had for a long time seen in your manner; and repeated what Miss W. had said, I was affected even to tears, my mind was in a dreadful state, as I shall explain hereafter. In a few days we parted, when you took your leave of me, I told you I was very unhappy, and that you were