THE DINNER. STILL IN LOVE WITH MARY

2017

That same November in 1808, he visited Mary Chaworth Muster at Annesley Hall with Hobhouse. He was very emotionally affected when he held Sophia, her two-year-old daughter, in his arms.

“..never opened my lips even to laugh, far less to speak, and the lady was almost as absurd as myself, which made both the object of more observation than if we had conducted ourselves with easy indifference. “