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1"A mighty concession indeed! If you were to see them at the altar, you would suppose they were going to be married.
2Ungracious girl! But I require no such proof. Nothing in my opinion has ever passed to justify doubt; no secrecy has
3been attempted; all has been uniformly open and unreserved. You cannot doubt your sister's wishes. It must be Willoughby
4therefore whom you suspect. But why? Is he not a man of honour and feeling? Has there been any inconsistency on his side
5to create alarm? can he be deceitful?" "I hope not, I believe not," cried Elinor. "I love Willoughby, sincerely love
6him; and suspicion of his integrity cannot be more painful to yourself than to me. It has been involuntary, and I will
7not encourage it. I was startled, I confess, by the alteration in his manners this morning;--he did not speak like
8himself, and did not return your kindness with any cordiality. But all this may be explained by such a situation of his
9affairs as you have supposed. He had just parted from my sister, had seen her leave him in the greatest affliction; and
10if he felt obliged, from a fear of offending Mrs. Smith, to resist the temptation of returning here soon, and yet aware
11that by declining your invitation, by saying that he was going away for some time, he should seem to act an ungenerous,
12a suspicious part by our family, he might well be embarrassed and disturbed. In such a case, a plain and open avowal of
13his difficulties would have been more to his honour I think, as well as more consistent with his general character;--but
14I will not raise objections against any one's conduct on so illiberal a foundation, as a difference in judgment from
15myself, or a deviation from what I may think right and consistent." "You speak very properly. Willoughby certainly does
16not deserve to be suspected. Though we have not known him long, he is no stranger in this part of the world; and who has
17ever spoken to his disadvantage? Had he been in a situation to act independently and marry immediately, it might have
18been odd that he should leave us without acknowledging everything to me at once: but this is not the case. It is an
19engagement in some respects not prosperously begun, for their marriage must be at a very uncertain distance; and even
20secrecy, as far as it can be observed, may now be very advisable." They were interrupted by the entrance of Margaret;
21and Elinor was then at liberty to think over the representations of her mother, to acknowledge the probability of many,
22and hope for the justice of all. They saw nothing of Marianne till dinner time, when she entered the room and took her
23place at the table without saying a word. Her eyes were red and swollen; and it seemed as if her tears were even then
24restrained with difficulty. She avoided the looks of them all, could neither eat nor speak, and after some time, on her
25mother's silently pressing her hand with tender compassion, her small degree of fortitude was quite overcome, she burst
26into tears and left the room. This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole evening. She was without any power,
27because she was without any desire of command over herself. The slightest mention of anything relative to Willoughby
28overpowered her in an instant; and though her family were most anxiously attentive to her comfort, it was impossible for
29them, if they spoke at all, to keep clear of every subject which her feelings connected with him. CHAPTER XVI. Marianne
30would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from
31Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed
32in more need of repose than when she lay down in it. But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in
33no danger of incurring it. She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest part of it. She got up with a
34headache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters,
35and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either. Her sensibility was potent enough! When breakfast was over she
36walked out by herself, and wandered about the village of Allenham, indulging the recollection of past enjoyment and
37crying over the present reverse for the chief of the morning. The evening passed off in the equal indulgence of feeling.
38She played over every favourite song that she had been used to play to Willoughby, every air in which their voices had
39been oftenest joined, and sat at the instrument gazing on every line of music that he had written out for her, till her
40heart was so heavy that no farther sadness could be gained; and this nourishment of grief was every day applied. She
41spent whole hours at the pianoforte alternately singing and crying; her voice often totally suspended by her tears. In
42books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of
43giving. She read nothing but what they had been used to read together. Such violence of affliction indeed could not be
44supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily
45recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever. No
46letter from Willoughby came; and none seemed expected by Marianne. Her mother was surprised, and Elinor again became
47uneasy. But Mrs. Dashwood could find explanations whenever she wanted them, which at least satisfied herself. "Remember,
48Elinor," said she, "how very often Sir John fetches our letters himself from the post, and carries them to it. We have
49already agreed that secrecy may be necessary, and we must acknowledge that it could not be maintained if their
50correspondence were to pass through Sir John's hands." Elinor could not deny the truth of this, and she tried to find in
51it a motive sufficient for their silence. But there was one method so direct, so simple, and in her opinion so eligible
52of knowing the real state of the affair, and of instantly removing all mystery, that she could not help suggesting it to
53her mother. "Why do you not ask Marianne at once," said she, "whether she is or she is not engaged to Willoughby? From
54you, her mother, and so kind, so indulgent a mother, the question could not give offence. It would be the natural result
55of your affection for her. She used to be all unreserve, and to you more especially." "I would not ask such a question
56for the world. Supposing it possible that they are not engaged, what distress would not such an enquiry inflict! At any
57rate it would be most ungenerous. I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of
58what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one. I know Marianne's heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and
59that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible. I
60would not attempt to force the confidence of any one; of a child much less; because a sense of duty would prevent the
61denial which her wishes might direct." Elinor thought this generosity overstrained, considering her sister's youth, and
62urged the matter farther, but in vain; common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's
63romantic delicacy. It was several days before Willoughby's name was mentioned before Marianne by any of her family; Sir
64John and Mrs. Jennings, indeed, were not so nice; their witticisms added pain to many a painful hour;--but one evening,
65Mrs. Dashwood, accidentally taking up a volume of Shakespeare, exclaimed, "We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our
66dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it. We will put it by, that when he comes again...But it may be
67months, perhaps, before that happens." "Months!" cried Marianne, with strong surprise. "No--nor many weeks." Mrs.
68Dashwood was sorry for what she had said; but it gave Elinor pleasure, as it produced a reply from Marianne so
69expressive of confidence in Willoughby and knowledge of his intentions.
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