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1"I think Mr. Morland would acknowledge a difference. No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he
2loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment." Catherine blushed for her friend, and said, "Isabella is wrong.
3But I am sure she cannot mean to torment, for she is very much attached to my brother. She has been in love with him
4ever since they first met, and while my father's consent was uncertain, she fretted herself almost into a fever. You
5know she must be attached to him." "I understand: she is in love with James, and flirts with Frederick." "Oh no, not
6flirts. A woman in love with one man cannot flirt with another." "It is probable that she will neither love so well, nor
7flirt so well, as she might do either singly. The gentlemen must each give up a little." After a short pause, Catherine
8resumed with, "Then you do not believe Isabella so very much attached to my brother?" "I can have no opinion on that
9subject." "But what can your brother mean? If he knows her engagement, what can he mean by his behaviour?" "You are a
10very close questioner." "Am I? I only ask what I want to be told." "But do you only ask what I can be expected to tell?"
11"Yes, I think so; for you must know your brother's heart." "My brother's heart, as you term it, on the present occasion,
12I assure you I can only guess at." "Well?" "Well! nay, if it is to be guesswork, let us all guess for ourselves. To be
13guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful. The premises are before you. My brother is a lively and perhaps sometimes a
14thoughtless young man; he has had about a week's acquaintance with your friend, and he has known her engagement almost
15as long as he has known her." "Well," said Catherine, after some moments' consideration, "you may be able to guess at
16your brother's intentions from all this; but I am sure I cannot. But is not your father uncomfortable about it? Does not
17he want Captain Tilney to go away? Sure, if your father were to speak to him, he would go." "My dear Miss Morland," said
18Henry, "in this amiable solicitude for your brother's comfort, may you not be a little mistaken? Are you not carried a
19little too far? Would he thank you, either on his own account or Miss Thorpe's, for supposing that her affection, or at
20least her good behaviour, is only to be secured by her seeing nothing of Captain Tilney? Is he safe only in solitude? Or
21is her heart constant to him only when unsolicited by anyone else? He cannot think this--and you may be sure that he
22would not have you think it. I will not say, 'Do not be uneasy,' because I know that you are so, at this moment; but be
23as little uneasy as you can. You have no doubt of the mutual attachment of your brother and your friend; depend upon it,
24therefore, that real jealousy never can exist between them; depend upon it that no disagreement between them can be of
25any duration. Their hearts are open to each other, as neither heart can be to you; they know exactly what is required
26and what can be borne; and you may be certain that one will never tease the other beyond what is known to be pleasant."
27Perceiving her still to look doubtful and grave, he added, "Though Frederick does not leave Bath with us, he will
28probably remain but a very short time, perhaps only a few days behind us. His leave of absence will soon expire, and he
29must return to his regiment. And what will then be their acquaintance? The mess-room will drink Isabella Thorpe for a
30fortnight, and she will laugh with your brother over poor Tilney's passion for a month." Catherine would contend no
31longer against comfort. She had resisted its approaches during the whole length of a speech, but it now carried her
32captive. Henry Tilney must know best. She blamed herself for the extent of her fears, and resolved never to think so
33seriously on the subject again. Her resolution was supported by Isabella's behaviour in their parting interview. The
34Thorpes spent the last evening of Catherine's stay in Pulteney Street, and nothing passed between the lovers to excite
35her uneasiness, or make her quit them in apprehension. James was in excellent spirits, and Isabella most engagingly
36placid. Her tenderness for her friend seemed rather the first feeling of her heart; but that at such a moment was
37allowable; and once she gave her lover a flat contradiction, and once she drew back her hand; but Catherine remembered
38Henry's instructions, and placed it all to judicious affection. The embraces, tears, and promises of the parting fair
39ones may be fancied. CHAPTER 20 Mr. and Mrs. Allen were sorry to lose their young friend, whose good humour and
40cheerfulness had made her a valuable companion, and in the promotion of whose enjoyment their own had been gently
41increased. Her happiness in going with Miss Tilney, however, prevented their wishing it otherwise; and, as they were to
42remain only one more week in Bath themselves, her quitting them now would not long be felt. Mr. Allen attended her to
43Milsom Street, where she was to breakfast, and saw her seated with the kindest welcome among her new friends; but so
44great was her agitation in finding herself as one of the family, and so fearful was she of not doing exactly what was
45right, and of not being able to preserve their good opinion, that, in the embarrassment of the first five minutes, she
46could almost have wished to return with him to Pulteney Street. Miss Tilney's manners and Henry's smile soon did away
47some of her unpleasant feelings; but still she was far from being at ease; nor could the incessant attentions of the
48General himself entirely reassure her. Nay, perverse as it seemed, she doubted whether she might not have felt less, had
49she been less attended to. His anxiety for her comfort--his continual solicitations that she would eat, and his
50often-expressed fears of her seeing nothing to her taste--though never in her life before had she beheld half such
51variety on a breakfast-table--made it impossible for her to forget for a moment that she was a visitor. She felt utterly
52unworthy of such respect, and knew not how to reply to it. Her tranquillity was not improved by the General's impatience
53for the appearance of his eldest son, nor by the displeasure he expressed at his laziness when Captain Tilney at last
54came down. She was quite pained by the severity of his father's reproof, which seemed disproportionate to the offence;
55and much was her concern increased when she found herself the principal cause of the lecture, and that his tardiness was
56chiefly resented from being disrespectful to her. This was placing her in a very uncomfortable situation, and she felt
57great compassion for Captain Tilney, without being able to hope for his goodwill. He listened to his father in silence,
58and attempted not any defence, which confirmed her in fearing that the inquietude of his mind, on Isabella's account,
59might, by keeping him long sleepless, have been the real cause of his rising late. It was the first time of her being
60decidedly in his company, and she had hoped to be now able to form her opinion of him; but she scarcely heard his voice
61while his father remained in the room; and even afterwards, so much were his spirits affected, she could distinguish
62nothing but these words, in a whisper to Eleanor, "How glad I shall be when you are all off."
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