texts: Provided that they can be assured of her ladyship's freewill?  Are you serious? </s> <s> May I be quite frank with you? </s> <s> Yes, of course.
labels: Mister Bracegirdle said to me that he had heard her ladyship lives in some fear of her life, and meditated a separation, in which case, she might later repudiate any documents signed by herself while in durance, and subject them, at any rate, to a doubtful and expensive litigation. They were quite insistent on this point, and said they must have absolute assurance of her ladyship's perfect freewill in the transaction before they would advance a shilling of their capital.