Eloisa: or, A series of original letters · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (translated by W. Kenrick)

Chapter 135: Mrs. Wolmar to her Husband

I expect you next Tuesday according to your appointment, and you will find every thing disposed agreeable to your desire. Call on Mrs. Orbe in your way back; she will tell you what has passed during your absence; I had rather you should learn it from her than from me.

I thought, Mr. Wolmar, I had deserved your esteem; but your conduct is not the more prudent, and you sport most cruelly with your wife’s virtue.