Volume 1, Letter 28: From Eloisa to Clara

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌​​​‌​⁠Alas, my dear Clara, how is the life you have restored me imbittered by your absence. What satisfaction can there be in my recovery, when I am still preyed upon by a more violent disorder? Cruel Clara! to leave me, when I stand most in need of your assistance. You are to be absent eight days, and perhaps by that time my fate will be determined, and it will be out of your power to see me any more.