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1Here Fanny, who had looked up, looked down again. "Of course," continued her uncle, "it cannot be supposed but that he
2should request to speak with you alone, be it only for five minutes; a request too natural, a claim too just to be
3denied. But there is no time fixed; perhaps to-morrow, or whenever your spirits are composed enough. For the present you
4have only to tranquillise yourself. Check these tears; they do but exhaust you. If, as I am willing to suppose, you wish
5to shew me any observance, you will not give way to these emotions, but endeavour to reason yourself into a stronger
6frame of mind. I advise you to go out: the air will do you good; go out for an hour on the gravel; you will have the
7shrubbery to yourself, and will be the better for air and exercise. And, Fanny" (turning back again for a moment), "I
8shall make no mention below of what has passed; I shall not even tell your aunt Bertram. There is no occasion for
9spreading the disappointment; say nothing about it yourself." This was an order to be most joyfully obeyed; this was an
10act of kindness which Fanny felt at her heart. To be spared from her aunt Norris's interminable reproaches! he left her
11in a glow of gratitude. Anything might be bearable rather than such reproaches. Even to see Mr. Crawford would be less
12overpowering. She walked out directly, as her uncle recommended, and followed his advice throughout, as far as she
13could; did check her tears; did earnestly try to compose her spirits and strengthen her mind. She wished to prove to him
14that she did desire his comfort, and sought to regain his favour; and he had given her another strong motive for
15exertion, in keeping the whole affair from the knowledge of her aunts. Not to excite suspicion by her look or manner was
16now an object worth attaining; and she felt equal to almost anything that might save her from her aunt Norris. She was
17struck, quite struck, when, on returning from her walk and going into the East room again, the first thing which caught
18her eye was a fire lighted and burning. A fire! it seemed too much; just at that time to be giving her such an
19indulgence was exciting even painful gratitude. She wondered that Sir Thomas could have leisure to think of such a
20trifle again; but she soon found, from the voluntary information of the housemaid, who came in to attend it, that so it
21was to be every day. Sir Thomas had given orders for it. "I must be a brute, indeed, if I can be really ungrateful!"
22said she, in soliloquy. "Heaven defend me from being ungrateful!" She saw nothing more of her uncle, nor of her aunt
23Norris, till they met at dinner. Her uncle's behaviour to her was then as nearly as possible what it had been before;
24she was sure he did not mean there should be any change, and that it was only her own conscience that could fancy any;
25but her aunt was soon quarrelling with her; and when she found how much and how unpleasantly her having only walked out
26without her aunt's knowledge could be dwelt on, she felt all the reason she had to bless the kindness which saved her
27from the same spirit of reproach, exerted on a more momentous subject. "If I had known you were going out, I should have
28got you just to go as far as my house with some orders for Nanny," said she, "which I have since, to my very great
29inconvenience, been obliged to go and carry myself. I could very ill spare the time, and you might have saved me the
30trouble, if you would only have been so good as to let us know you were going out. It would have made no difference to
31you, I suppose, whether you had walked in the shrubbery or gone to my house." "I recommended the shrubbery to Fanny as
32the driest place," said Sir Thomas. "Oh!" said Mrs. Norris, with a moment's check, "that was very kind of you, Sir
33Thomas; but you do not know how dry the path is to my house. Fanny would have had quite as good a walk there, I assure
34you, with the advantage of being of some use, and obliging her aunt: it is all her fault. If she would but have let us
35know she was going out but there is a something about Fanny, I have often observed it before--she likes to go her own
36way to work; she does not like to be dictated to; she takes her own independent walk whenever she can; she certainly has
37a little spirit of secrecy, and independence, and nonsense, about her, which I would advise her to get the better of."
38As a general reflection on Fanny, Sir Thomas thought nothing could be more unjust, though he had been so lately
39expressing the same sentiments himself, and he tried to turn the conversation: tried repeatedly before he could succeed;
40for Mrs. Norris had not discernment enough to perceive, either now, or at any other time, to what degree he thought well
41of his niece, or how very far he was from wishing to have his own children's merits set off by the depreciation of hers.
42She was talking at Fanny, and resenting this private walk half through the dinner. It was over, however, at last; and
43the evening set in with more composure to Fanny, and more cheerfulness of spirits than she could have hoped for after so
44stormy a morning; but she trusted, in the first place, that she had done right: that her judgment had not misled her.
45For the purity of her intentions she could answer; and she was willing to hope, secondly, that her uncle's displeasure
46was abating, and would abate farther as he considered the matter with more impartiality, and felt, as a good man must
47feel, how wretched, and how unpardonable, how hopeless, and how wicked it was to marry without affection. When the
48meeting with which she was threatened for the morrow was past, she could not but flatter herself that the subject would
49be finally concluded, and Mr. Crawford once gone from Mansfield, that everything would soon be as if no such subject had
50existed. She would not, could not believe, that Mr. Crawford's affection for her could distress him long; his mind was
51not of that sort. London would soon bring its cure. In London he would soon learn to wonder at his infatuation, and be
52thankful for the right reason in her which had saved him from its evil consequences. While Fanny's mind was engaged in
53these sort of hopes, her uncle was, soon after tea, called out of the room; an occurrence too common to strike her, and
54she thought nothing of it till the butler reappeared ten minutes afterwards, and advancing decidedly towards herself,
55said, "Sir Thomas wishes to speak with you, ma'am, in his own room." Then it occurred to her what might be going on; a
56suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her cheeks; but instantly rising, she was preparing to obey,
57when Mrs. Norris called out, "Stay, stay, Fanny! what are you about? where are you going? don't be in such a hurry.
58Depend upon it, it is not you who are wanted; depend upon it, it is me" (looking at the butler); "but you are so very
59eager to put yourself forward. What should Sir Thomas want you for? It is me, Baddeley, you mean; I am coming this
60moment. You mean me, Baddeley, I am sure; Sir Thomas wants me, not Miss Price." But Baddeley was stout. "No, ma'am, it
61is Miss Price; I am certain of its being Miss Price." And there was a half-smile with the words, which meant, "I do not
62think you would answer the purpose at all." Mrs. Norris, much discontented, was obliged to compose herself to work
63again; and Fanny, walking off in agitating consciousness, found herself, as she anticipated, in another minute alone
64with Mr. Crawford.
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