Eventually, Pamela decides she must go back to see her parents to get away from the aggressive Mr. B and preserve her “virtue” (virginity). Mr. B claims to want to marry Pamela off to his chaplain, Mr. Williams, and so he finally allows Pamela to take a coach back to her parents so she can ask for their permission to marry Mr. Williams. But what Pamela doesn’t know is that John, the man who carries her letters to her parents, has been following Mr. B’s orders, secretly showing him some of Pamela’s letters and leaving a few of them undelivered. Also, Mr. B has no intention of sending Pamela home. When Pamela gets in the coach to go home, it takes her instead to Mr. B’s Lincolnshire estate in the country, trapping her there as Mr. B’s prisoner.