The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Volume 1 Chapter 59

In which Peregrine, amidst a restless search for solace, encounters Mrs. Hornbeck and negotiates a delicate truce with her suspicious duenna, employing both wit and wine to ease the latter's vigilance. His valet’s blunder causes a brief tumult, yet with tact and promises of marriage, the party reconciles, securing a night free from further constraint.