Pamela

At Pamela’s meeting with Mr. B and Mrs. Jervis, Mr. B asks Mrs. Jervis what Pamela has told her about his actions, and Mrs. Jervis recounts what Pamela shared. Mr. B insists that he had no intentions of going further than kissing her, and that Pamela is arrogant and hypocritical in the way she portrays him. Mrs. Jervis tries to soothe both of them, explaining that, “though your honor intended her no harm, yet the apprehension was almost death to her” (67). Nonetheless, Mr. B announces that Pamela is likely to damage his reputation with the claims she keeps making, and that he intends to dismiss her. Pamela is happy with this news, and writes to her parents that she will soon be returning to them.

Pamela’s parents are very happy she is coming home—they will “receive [her] with more pleasure than we had at your birth, or than we ever had in our lives” (69). Her father wants to give back the money that she sent them and urges her to travel accompanied by John the footman when returns home.