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1"Aye, I believe that will be best for her. Let her name her own supper, and go to bed. Lord! no wonder she has been
2looking so bad and so cast down this last week or two, for this matter I suppose has been hanging over her head as long
3as that. And so the letter that came today finished it! Poor soul! I am sure if I had had a notion of it, I would not
4have joked her about it for all my money. But then you know, how should I guess such a thing? I made sure of its being
5nothing but a common love letter, and you know young people like to be laughed at about them. Lord! how concerned Sir
6John and my daughters will be when they hear it! If I had my senses about me I might have called in Conduit Street in my
7way home, and told them of it. But I shall see them tomorrow." "It would be unnecessary I am sure, for you to caution
8Mrs. Palmer and Sir John against ever naming Mr. Willoughby, or making the slightest allusion to what has passed, before
9my sister. Their own good-nature must point out to them the real cruelty of appearing to know any thing about it when
10she is present; and the less that may ever be said to myself on the subject, the more my feelings will be spared, as you
11my dear madam will easily believe." "Oh! Lord! yes, that I do indeed. It must be terrible for you to hear it talked of;
12and as for your sister, I am sure I would not mention a word about it to her for the world. You saw I did not all dinner
13time. No more would Sir John, nor my daughters, for they are all very thoughtful and considerate; especially if I give
14them a hint, as I certainly will. For my part, I think the less that is said about such things, the better, the sooner
15'tis blown over and forgot. And what good does talking ever do you know?" "In this affair it can only do harm; more so
16perhaps than in many cases of a similar kind, for it has been attended by circumstances which, for the sake of every one
17concerned in it, make it unfit to become the public conversation. I must do this justice to Mr. Willoughby--he has
18broken no positive engagement with my sister." "Law, my dear! Don't pretend to defend him. No positive engagement
19indeed! after taking her all over Allenham House, and fixing on the very rooms they were to live in hereafter!" Elinor,
20for her sister's sake, could not press the subject farther, and she hoped it was not required of her for Willoughby's;
21since, though Marianne might lose much, he could gain very little by the enforcement of the real truth. After a short
22silence on both sides, Mrs. Jennings, with all her natural hilarity, burst forth again. "Well, my dear, 'tis a true
23saying about an ill-wind, for it will be all the better for Colonel Brandon. He will have her at last; aye, that he
24will. Mind me, now, if they an't married by Mid-summer. Lord! how he'll chuckle over this news! I hope he will come
25tonight. It will be all to one a better match for your sister. Two thousand a year without debt or drawback--except the
26little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it
27signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and
28conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such
29a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a
30dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and,
31moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you
32only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along. Oh! 'tis a nice
33place! A butcher hard by in the village, and the parsonage-house within a stone's throw. To my fancy, a thousand times
34prettier than Barton Park, where they are forced to send three miles for their meat, and have not a neighbour nearer
35than your mother. Well, I shall spirit up the Colonel as soon as I can. One shoulder of mutton, you know, drives another
36down. If we can but put Willoughby out of her head!" "Ay, if we can do that, Ma'am," said Elinor, "we shall do very well
37with or without Colonel Brandon." And then rising, she went away to join Marianne, whom she found, as she expected, in
38her own room, leaning, in silent misery, over the small remains of a fire, which, till Elinor's entrance, had been her
39only light. "You had better leave me," was all the notice that her sister received from her. "I will leave you," said
40Elinor, "if you will go to bed." But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused
41to do. Her sister's earnest, though gentle persuasion, however, soon softened her to compliance, and Elinor saw her lay
42her aching head on the pillow, and as she hoped, in a way to get some quiet rest before she left her. In the
43drawing-room, whither she then repaired, she was soon joined by Mrs. Jennings, with a wine-glass, full of something, in
44her hand. "My dear," said she, entering, "I have just recollected that I have some of the finest old Constantia wine in
45the house that ever was tasted, so I have brought a glass of it for your sister. My poor husband! how fond he was of it!
46Whenever he had a touch of his old colicky gout, he said it did him more good than any thing else in the world. Do take
47it to your sister." "Dear Ma'am," replied Elinor, smiling at the difference of the complaints for which it was
48recommended, "how good you are! But I have just left Marianne in bed, and, I hope, almost asleep; and as I think nothing
49will be of so much service to her as rest, if you will give me leave, I will drink the wine myself." Mrs. Jennings,
50though regretting that she had not been five minutes earlier, was satisfied with the compromise; and Elinor, as she
51swallowed the chief of it, reflected, that though its effects on a colicky gout were, at present, of little importance
52to her, its healing powers, on a disappointed heart might be as reasonably tried on herself as on her sister. Colonel
53Brandon came in while the party were at tea, and by his manner of looking round the room for Marianne, Elinor
54immediately fancied that he neither expected nor wished to see her there, and, in short, that he was already aware of
55what occasioned her absence. Mrs. Jennings was not struck by the same thought; for soon after his entrance, she walked
56across the room to the tea-table where Elinor presided, and whispered, "The Colonel looks as grave as ever you see. He
57knows nothing of it; do tell him, my dear." He shortly afterwards drew a chair close to hers, and, with a look which
58perfectly assured her of his good information, inquired after her sister. "Marianne is not well," said she. "She has
59been indisposed all day, and we have persuaded her to go to bed." "Perhaps, then," he hesitatingly replied, "what I
60heard this morning may be--there may be more truth in it than I could believe possible at first." "What did you hear?"
61"That a gentleman, whom I had reason to think--in short, that a man, whom I knew to be engaged--but how shall I tell
62you? If you know it already, as surely you must, I may be spared." "You mean," answered Elinor, with forced calmness,
63"Mr. Willoughby's marriage with Miss Grey. Yes, we do know it all. This seems to have been a day of general elucidation,
64for this very morning first unfolded it to us. Mr. Willoughby is unfathomable! Where did you hear it?"
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