…I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner minced. Mr Blackman’s two maid servants drank tea with me. At home all day; my leg very painful. In the evening my intended wife and her sister called to see me and sat with me some time. This may possibly be imputed to the girl as fondness, but I must do her the justice to say I esteem it only friendship and good manners. For I have never met with more civil and friendly usage from any one of the fair sex than I have from this girl.