text:  Yet did I not think such a thing possible as that either of them should have been taken into her confidence on so high and momentous a concernment by reason of my Waller being so young though thoughtful and considerate and also fuller grown than persons much more advanced in life; and Alice Snowton was of so playful and gentle a disposition that she seemed unfitted for the depository of any secret unless those more strictly appertaining to her youth and sex and moreover was a stranger to this part of the country being of a respectable family as I have observed in Wilts--namely a brother of Mr Snowton my kind patron and friend