I with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. But, Lord! And porters every where bow to us; and such begging of beggars! And a delightfull thing it is to see the towne full of people again as now it is; and shops begin to open, though in many places seven or eight together, and more, all shut; but yet the towne is full, compared with what it used to be.
I mean the City end; for Covent-Guarden and Westminster are yet very empty of people, no Court nor gentry being there. Set Mrs. Carteret , at his chamber at White Hall , he being come to town last night to stay one day. So my Lord and he and I much talke about the Act, what credit we find upon it, but no private talke between him and I. He tells me how my Lord Bellases complains for want of money and of him and me therein, but I value it not, for I know I do all that can be done.
I had great satisfaction herein. So home and to my papers for lacke of company, but by and by comes little Mrs. Tooker and sat and supped with me, and I kept her very late talking and making her comb my head, and did what I will with her. So late to bed. I had great satisfaction herein; so home, and to my papers for lack of company, but by and by comes little Mrs.
Tooker and sat and supped with me, and I kept her very late, talking and making her comb my head; and I did what I will with her et tena grande plaisir con ella, took great pleasure with her tocando sa cosa con mi cosa, touching her thing with my thing and hazendo la cosa per cette moyen.
I know others have written otherwise, but I keep wishing that Mrs. Tooker was somehow older than has been reported -- maybe she was physically precocious or something, I dunno. I'm usually good at stepping out of my 21st century mores as I read the Diary, but this relationship always gets me. It's possible by "little Mrs. Tooker" Pepys merely means to distinguish her from her mother and another woman of the same name and ca.
