The surgeon's wife must have told Wesley this story
before Nov. 23, 1736, when Oglethorpe sailed for England,
for we are told that he was hurt by some manifestation
of distrust from Wesley in Georgia. In the beginning of
December, Wesley writes in his journal : ' I advised Miss
Sophy to sup earlier, and not immediately before she new
to bed. She did so, and on this little circumstance what an
inconceivable train of circumstances depend ! Not only
" all the colour of remaining life," for her, but perhaps all
my happiness too.'

From this it would appear that Wesley supposed this
trivial circumstance to have had something to do with Miss
Hopkey's marriage. Now, can it be believed, if, at the
time he had considered this young woman as willing to
enter into such a plot as that indicated in the text, either
that he would have continued such an intimate intercourse
as to advise her on the time of her meals, or that ' all his

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