state.  There, in a very short time, her dress is finished.  She then says she won’t detain me, and I hear and see no more of her till bed-time.

It is commonly three o’clock when I am thus set at large.  And I have then two hours quite at my disposal:  but, in the natural course of things, not a moment after!  These dear and quiet two hours, my only quite sure and undisturbed time in the whole day, after breakfast is over, I shall henceforth devote to thus talking with my beloved Susan, my Fredy, and my other sisters, my dear father, or Miss Cambridge; with my brothers, cousins, Mrs. Ord, and other friends, in such terms as these two hours will occasionally allow me.  Henceforward, I say; for hitherto dejection of spirits, with uncertainty how long my time might last, have made me waste moment after moment as sadly as unprofitably.

At five, we have dinner.  Mrs. Schwellenberg and I meet in the eating-room.  We are commonly t`ete-`a-t`ete:  when there is anybody added, it is from her invitation only.  Whatever right my place might afford me of also inviting my friends to the table I have now totally lost, by want of courage and spirits to claim it originally.

When we have dined, we go upstairs to her apartment, which is directly over mine.  Here we have coffee till the “terracing” is over:  this is at about eight o’clock.  Our t`ete-`a-t`ete then finishes, and we come down again to the eating-room.  There the equerry, whoever he is, comes to tea constantly, and with him any gentleman that the king or queen may have invited for the evening; and when tea is over, he conducts them, and goes himself, to the concert-room.  This is commonly about nine o’clock.

>From that time, if Mrs. Schwellenberg is alone, I never quit her for a minute, till I come to my little supper at near eleven.  Between eleven and twelve my last summons usually takes place, earlier and later occasionally.  Twenty minutes is the customary time then spent with the queen:  half an hour, I believe, is seldom exceeded.

I then come back, and after doing whatever I can to forward my dress for the next morning, I go to bed-and to sleep, too, believe me :  the early rising, and a long day’s attention to new affairs and occupations, cause a fatigue so bodily, that nothing mental stands against it, and to sleep I fall the moment I have put Out my candle and laid down my head.

Such is the day to your F. B. in her new situation at Wind-348

sor; such, I mean, is its usual destination, and its intended course.  I make it take now and then another channel, but never stray far enough not to return to the original stream after a little meandering about and about it.

I think now you will be able to see and to follow me pretty closely.