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1It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as herself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse was
2painful enough by letter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet! Harriet expressed herself very much as might be
3supposed, without reproaches, or apparent sense of ill-usage; and yet Emma fancied there was a something of resentment,
4a something bordering on it in her style, which increased the desirableness of their being separate.--It might be only
5her own consciousness; but it seemed as if an angel only could have been quite without resentment under such a stroke.
6She had no difficulty in procuring Isabella's invitation; and she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for asking
7it, without resorting to invention.--There was a tooth amiss. Harriet really wished, and had wished some time, to
8consult a dentist. Mrs. John Knightley was delighted to be of use; any thing of ill health was a recommendation to
9her--and though not so fond of a dentist as of a Mr. Wingfield, she was quite eager to have Harriet under her
10care.--When it was thus settled on her sister's side, Emma proposed it to her friend, and found her very
11persuadable.--Harriet was to go; she was invited for at least a fortnight; she was to be conveyed in Mr. Woodhouse's
12carriage.--It was all arranged, it was all completed, and Harriet was safe in Brunswick Square. Now Emma could, indeed,
13enjoy Mr. Knightley's visits; now she could talk, and she could listen with true happiness, unchecked by that sense of
14injustice, of guilt, of something most painful, which had haunted her when remembering how disappointed a heart was near
15her, how much might at that moment, and at a little distance, be enduring by the feelings which she had led astray
16herself. The difference of Harriet at Mrs. Goddard's, or in London, made perhaps an unreasonable difference in Emma's
17sensations; but she could not think of her in London without objects of curiosity and employment, which must be averting
18the past, and carrying her out of herself. She would not allow any other anxiety to succeed directly to the place in her
19mind which Harriet had occupied. There was a communication before her, one which she only could be competent to
20make--the confession of her engagement to her father; but she would have nothing to do with it at present.--She had
21resolved to defer the disclosure till Mrs. Weston were safe and well. No additional agitation should be thrown at this
22period among those she loved--and the evil should not act on herself by anticipation before the appointed time.--A
23fortnight, at least, of leisure and peace of mind, to crown every warmer, but more agitating, delight, should be hers.
24She soon resolved, equally as a duty and a pleasure, to employ half an hour of this holiday of spirits in calling on
25Miss Fairfax.--She ought to go--and she was longing to see her; the resemblance of their present situations increasing
26every other motive of goodwill. It would be a secret satisfaction; but the consciousness of a similarity of prospect
27would certainly add to the interest with which she should attend to any thing Jane might communicate. She went--she had
28driven once unsuccessfully to the door, but had not been into the house since the morning after Box Hill, when poor Jane
29had been in such distress as had filled her with compassion, though all the worst of her sufferings had been
30unsuspected.--The fear of being still unwelcome, determined her, though assured of their being at home, to wait in the
31passage, and send up her name.--She heard Patty announcing it; but no such bustle succeeded as poor Miss Bates had
32before made so happily intelligible.--No; she heard nothing but the instant reply of, "Beg her to walk up;"--and a
33moment afterwards she was met on the stairs by Jane herself, coming eagerly forward, as if no other reception of her
34were felt sufficient.--Emma had never seen her look so well, so lovely, so engaging. There was consciousness, animation,
35and warmth; there was every thing which her countenance or manner could ever have wanted.-- She came forward with an
36offered hand; and said, in a low, but very feeling tone, "This is most kind, indeed!--Miss Woodhouse, it is impossible
37for me to express--I hope you will believe--Excuse me for being so entirely without words." Emma was gratified, and
38would soon have shewn no want of words, if the sound of Mrs. Elton's voice from the sitting-room had not checked her,
39and made it expedient to compress all her friendly and all her congratulatory sensations into a very, very earnest shake
40of the hand. Mrs. Bates and Mrs. Elton were together. Miss Bates was out, which accounted for the previous tranquillity.
41Emma could have wished Mrs. Elton elsewhere; but she was in a humour to have patience with every body; and as Mrs. Elton
42met her with unusual graciousness, she hoped the rencontre would do them no harm. She soon believed herself to penetrate
43Mrs. Elton's thoughts, and understand why she was, like herself, in happy spirits; it was being in Miss Fairfax's
44confidence, and fancying herself acquainted with what was still a secret to other people. Emma saw symptoms of it
45immediately in the expression of her face; and while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend
46to the good old lady's replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had
47apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold reticule by her side, saying, with
48significant nods, "We can finish this some other time, you know. You and I shall not want opportunities. And, in fact,
49you have heard all the essential already. I only wanted to prove to you that Mrs. S. admits our apology, and is not
50offended. You see how delightfully she writes. Oh! she is a sweet creature! You would have doated on her, had you
51gone.--But not a word more. Let us be discreet--quite on our good behaviour.--Hush!--You remember those lines--I forget
52the poem at this moment: "For when a lady's in the case, "You know all other things give place." Now I say, my dear, in
53our case, for lady, read----mum! a word to the wise.--I am in a fine flow of spirits, an't I? But I want to set your
54heart at ease as to Mrs. S.--My representation, you see, has quite appeased her." And again, on Emma's merely turning
55her head to look at Mrs. Bates's knitting, she added, in a half whisper, "I mentioned no names, you will observe.--Oh!
56no; cautious as a minister of state. I managed it extremely well." Emma could not doubt. It was a palpable display,
57repeated on every possible occasion. When they had all talked a little while in harmony of the weather and Mrs. Weston,
58she found herself abruptly addressed with, "Do not you think, Miss Woodhouse, our saucy little friend here is charmingly
59recovered?--Do not you think her cure does Perry the highest credit?--(here was a side-glance of great meaning at Jane.)
60Upon my word, Perry has restored her in a wonderful short time!--Oh! if you had seen her, as I did, when she was at the
61worst!"--And when Mrs. Bates was saying something to Emma, whispered farther, "We do not say a word of any assistance
62that Perry might have; not a word of a certain young physician from Windsor.--Oh! no; Perry shall have all the credit."
63"I have scarce had the pleasure of seeing you, Miss Woodhouse," she shortly afterwards began, "since the party to Box
64Hill. Very pleasant party. But yet I think there was something wanting. Things did not seem--that is, there seemed a
65little cloud upon the spirits of some.--So it appeared to me at least, but I might be mistaken. However, I think it
66answered so far as to tempt one to go again. What say you both to our collecting the same party, and exploring to Box
67Hill again, while the fine weather lasts?--It must be the same party, you know, quite the same party, not one
68exception." Soon after this Miss Bates came in, and Emma could not help being diverted by the perplexity of her first
69answer to herself, resulting, she supposed, from doubt of what might be said, and impatience to say every thing.
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