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Blandy and her daughter went on a visit to Turville Court, the house of a friend named Mrs. Pocock, of whom we shall hear again. While there, the old lady became suddenly, and as was at first feared fatally, ill.
'Why, it seems but yesterday that I played hide-and-seek wi' my brothers in the old Boteler Castle, that stood where the new house o' Badminton, or Acton Turville, as some calls it, now stands. The Duke hath built it but a few years, and, indeed, his Dukedom itself is scarce older. There are some who think that he would have done better to stick by the old name that his forebears bore.
Through the whole course of her illness, when in her senses, she constantly cried out, "Let Cranstoun be sent for:" On which, I at last sent for him. He was then at Southampton; which, by the miscarriage of one of his letters, I was ignorant of. But the very night he reached London, he set out for Turville Court, and arrived there about ten o'clock at night. As soon as he came to Mrs.
Cranstoun for several months, our correspondence still continued; letters passing and repassing between us almost every post. During this interval, my mamma went to a place called Turville Court, to the house of one Mrs. Pocock; where she was seized with a disorder, that it was thought would have proved fatal to her.
August Cranstoun meets Mary Blandy at Lord Mark Kerr's. October Mrs. Cranstoun takes proceedings in Commissary Court. August Second meeting of Cranstoun and Mary. Cranstoun visits the Blandys and stays six months. January Cranstoun returns to London. 1 March Cranstoun's marriage upheld by the Commissary Court. May Mrs. Blandy's illness at Turville Court.
Pocock of Turville Court had a house in St. James's Square. "Hither Mr. Cranstoun perpetually came," says Mary, "when he understood that I was there;" so they were able to dispense with the Serjeant's hospitality. One day she and her mother were bidden to dine at Mrs. Cranstoun and their hostess called for them in a coach, and in the Strand whom should the party encounter but Mr.
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