Corporal Trim carries the map away to the kitchen, and he proceeds to demonstrate the matter to Bridget. Miss Bridget, aware of her obligation to learn the truth, tries by telling Trim that she knows for a fact, "from credible witnesses," that Uncle Toby's accident had ********* him completely. Trim swears that "'tis a story . . . as false as hell."
He woos Bridget successfully, and then he asks "whose suspicion misled thee?" She breaks down and "she then open'd her heart and told him all."
The campaign goes on each afternoon, neither master nor servant communicating anything to the other. Toby "had nothing to communicate," Trim "had much to communicate." One evening, Toby was "counting over to himself upon his finger ends . . . all Mrs. Wadman's perfections one by one." Getting confused in his calculations, he orders Trim to write them down as he dictates them. Of all her "thousand virtues," the one "which wins me most . . . is the compassionate turn and singular humanity of her character." Even if he were her brother, "she could not make more constant or more tender enquiries after my sufferings — though now no more." Trim, after a short cough, dutifully writes at the very top of the sheet "HUMANITY."
In order to point out the difference between the well-born lady and the maidservant, Toby asks Trim how often Bridget inquires about the wound on his knee. Trim answers that she never asks about it. Toby's triumph leads Trim to explain that if Toby's knee had been involved, "Mrs. Wadman would have troubled her head as little about it as Bridget"; the reason is that "'the knee is such a distance from the main body — whereas the groin, your honour knows, is upon the very curtin of the place.'" Uncle Toby gives a long whistle — "but in a note which could scarce be heard across the table." Trim "had advanced too far to retire — in three words he told the rest — ." Uncle Toby lays down his pipe very gently: " — Let us go to my brother Shandy's, said he."
