They instruct PAMELA in the art of writing.

As the music and dialogue of the offstage production begin, a member of the " Pamela " cast turns the volume off. BELVILLE is discovered kneeling, mourning over PAMELA's coffin, with MR. WILLIAMS. BELVILLE: To answer this black charge, I will give you a brief history of my passion for this dear girl; how it commenced and increased and my own struggles with it. I began to take notice of her when she was hardly thirteen years old. PAMELA enters behind him as if in his imagination Her charms increased every day, not only in my eye but in the eyes of all who beheld her, for my mother took the greatest delight in her waiting maid. MRS. BELVILLE enters with MRS. JERVIS. They instruct PAMELA in the art of writing. About this time I had, by a certain wicked attempt