After I had spent some time at home, where, as I had no restraint,
so (my sisters being gone) I had now no society, I walked up to
Chalfont again, and spent a few days with my friends there.
As soon as I came in I was told that my father had been there that
day to see Isaac Penington and his wife, but they being abroad at a
meeting, he returned to his inn in the town, where he intended to
lodge that night. After supper Mary Penington told me she had a
mind to go and see him at his inn (the woman of the house being a
friend of ours), and I went with her. He seemed somewhat surprised
to see me there, because he thought I had been at home at his house;
but he took no notice of my hat--at least showed no offence at it,
for, as I afterwards understood, he had now an intention to sell his
estate, and thought he should need my concurrence therein, which
made him now hold it necessary to admit me again into some degree of
favour. After we had tarried some little time with him, she rising
up to be gone, he waited on her home, and having spent about an hour
with us in the family, I waited on him back to his inn.
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