2 [You who are honorable & generous cannot conceive how ladies have been sent to us as to a Penitentary, by the highest religious names in the land; & without the safe-guard of a Penitentiary - viz. telling what these ladies had been; - no, not even to me] But I am so very anxious to serve if we could the lady you mention that I will, if you will allow me, during the 2 months you say