After the elopement Fillamour is distracted by the opposing motives of love and interest.  To marry Philenia means ruin, for his ambitious uncle, who has proposed an advantageous marriage to him, would never forgive him for a love match.  The innocent cause of his distress finally discovers his perplexity and agrees to live a single life until they can marry without loss of fortune.  In this state of affairs “their love seem’d to be a copy of that pure and immaterial passion, which angels regard each other with, and, which we are allow’d to hope shall be our portion, when, shaking off our earth, we meet in a happier world, where we are to live and love forever.”  The lovers’ paradise is invaded by Philenia’s father, who carries her home and locks her up more closely than before.  In a short time she has the shocking intelligence that Fillamour has married according to the wishes of his worldly uncle.  She still remains constant to him, but “the remainder of her yet surprising adventures,” remarks the author, “and those of Antonia and Coeurdemont must be told another time, having good reason to doubt my reader will be tir’d, when I am so myself.”

Eliza was perhaps the first to recover from the fatigue, for in a little more than two months the continuation, costing sixpence more than the first instalment, was offered to her readers.

After making his marriage of convenance Fillamour again pays his court to Philenia, and seizing a lucky moment to surprise her on her daily walk, half by persuasion, half by force, carries his point.  But before they can meet a second time she is carried off by a gang of villains, who mistake her for another woman.  The languishing Misimene, who has pursued Fillamour into the country in man’s clothes, consoles him for the loss of his first love.  Upon his return to town he finds that his wife has fled to join her lover.  Meanwhile Philenia’s honor is preserved by timely shipwreck of the vessel in which the ravishers are carrying her off.  Washed ashore on the inevitable plank, she supports herself among the fisher folk by weaving nets until after a year’s toil she is relieved by Antonia and Coeurdemont, now happily married.  The relation of their adventures occupies some pages.  Philenia comes back to town to find her lover weltering in his blood, stabbed by the jealous Misimene.  Believing him dead, she seizes the same sword, plunges it into her bosom, and instantly expires.  Misimene goes into frenzies, and Fillamour alone recovers to live out a life of undying grief.

“Thus was the crime of giving way to an unwarrantable passion, punish’d in the persons of Philenia and Misimene, and that of perjury and ingratitude in Fillamour; while the constancy of Antonia, and the honour of Coeurdemont, receiv’d the reward their virtues merited, and they continued, to their lives end, great and shining examples of conjugal affection.”

Apparently Philenia’s adventures were somewhat