Our ladies have just learned, my illustrious doctor, that you will be dining in town; consequently, they fear that it will inconvenience you to return home so promptly in order to give them tea before five o'clock. They ask me as well, if this is true, if they have not heard falsely, to entreat you not to trouble yourself for them. They will wait for another day when they will be able to come take tea at your house without troubling you. You know, my illustrious doctor, how I am passionately attached to you