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1"How perfectly I remember my resolving to look for you upstairs, and setting off to find my way to the East room,
2without having an idea whereabouts it was! How well I remember what I was thinking of as I came along, and my looking in
3and seeing you here sitting at this table at work; and then your cousin's astonishment, when he opened the door, at
4seeing me here! To be sure, your uncle's returning that very evening! There never was anything quite like it." Another
5short fit of abstraction followed, when, shaking it off, she thus attacked her companion. "Why, Fanny, you are
6absolutely in a reverie. Thinking, I hope, of one who is always thinking of you. Oh! that I could transport you for a
7short time into our circle in town, that you might understand how your power over Henry is thought of there! Oh! the
8envyings and heartburnings of dozens and dozens; the wonder, the incredulity that will be felt at hearing what you have
9done! For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains. You should come to London
10to know how to estimate your conquest. If you were to see how he is courted, and how I am courted for his sake! Now, I
11am well aware that I shall not be half so welcome to Mrs. Fraser in consequence of his situation with you. When she
12comes to know the truth she will, very likely, wish me in Northamptonshire again; for there is a daughter of Mr. Fraser,
13by a first wife, whom she is wild to get married, and wants Henry to take. Oh! she has been trying for him to such a
14degree. Innocent and quiet as you sit here, you cannot have an idea of the sensation that you will be occasioning, of
15the curiosity there will be to see you, of the endless questions I shall have to answer! Poor Margaret Fraser will be at
16me for ever about your eyes and your teeth, and how you do your hair, and who makes your shoes. I wish Margaret were
17married, for my poor friend's sake, for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. And
18yet it was a most desirable match for Janet at the time. We were all delighted. She could not do otherwise than accept
19him, for he was rich, and she had nothing; but he turns out ill-tempered and exigeant, and wants a young woman, a
20beautiful young woman of five-and-twenty, to be as steady as himself. And my friend does not manage him well; she does
21not seem to know how to make the best of it. There is a spirit of irritation which, to say nothing worse, is certainly
22very ill-bred. In their house I shall call to mind the conjugal manners of Mansfield Parsonage with respect. Even Dr.
23Grant does shew a thorough confidence in my sister, and a certain consideration for her judgment, which makes one feel
24there is attachment; but of that I shall see nothing with the Frasers. I shall be at Mansfield for ever, Fanny. My own
25sister as a wife, Sir Thomas Bertram as a husband, are my standards of perfection. Poor Janet has been sadly taken in,
26and yet there was nothing improper on her side: she did not run into the match inconsiderately; there was no want of
27foresight. She took three days to consider of his proposals, and during those three days asked the advice of everybody
28connected with her whose opinion was worth having, and especially applied to my late dear aunt, whose knowledge of the
29world made her judgment very generally and deservedly looked up to by all the young people of her acquaintance, and she
30was decidedly in favour of Mr. Fraser. This seems as if nothing were a security for matrimonial comfort. I have not so
31much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues for the sake of that horrid Lord
32Stornaway, who has about as much sense, Fanny, as Mr. Rushworth, but much worse-looking, and with a blackguard
33character. I had my doubts at the time about her being right, for he has not even the air of a gentleman, and now I am
34sure she was wrong. By the bye, Flora Ross was dying for Henry the first winter she came out. But were I to attempt to
35tell you of all the women whom I have known to be in love with him, I should never have done. It is you, only you,
36insensible Fanny, who can think of him with anything like indifference. But are you so insensible as you profess
37yourself? No, no, I see you are not." There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might
38warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind. "Excellent creature! I will not tease you. Everything shall take its
39course. But, dear Fanny, you must allow that you were not so absolutely unprepared to have the question asked as your
40cousin fancies. It is not possible but that you must have had some thoughts on the subject, some surmises as to what
41might be. You must have seen that he was trying to please you by every attention in his power. Was not he devoted to you
42at the ball? And then before the ball, the necklace! Oh! you received it just as it was meant. You were as conscious as
43heart could desire. I remember it perfectly." "Do you mean, then, that your brother knew of the necklace beforehand? Oh!
44Miss Crawford, that was not fair." "Knew of it! It was his own doing entirely, his own thought. I am ashamed to say that
45it had never entered my head, but I was delighted to act on his proposal for both your sakes." "I will not say," replied
46Fanny, "that I was not half afraid at the time of its being so, for there was something in your look that frightened me,
47but not at first; I was as unsuspicious of it at first--indeed, indeed I was. It is as true as that I sit here. And had
48I had an idea of it, nothing should have induced me to accept the necklace. As to your brother's behaviour, certainly I
49was sensible of a particularity: I had been sensible of it some little time, perhaps two or three weeks; but then I
50considered it as meaning nothing: I put it down as simply being his way, and was as far from supposing as from wishing
51him to have any serious thoughts of me. I had not, Miss Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing
52between him and some part of this family in the summer and autumn. I was quiet, but I was not blind. I could not but see
53that Mr. Crawford amused himself in gallantries which did mean nothing." "Ah! I cannot deny it. He has now and then been
54a sad flirt, and cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies' affections. I have often scolded
55him for it, but it is his only fault; and there is this to be said, that very few young ladies have any affections worth
56caring for. And then, Fanny, the glory of fixing one who has been shot at by so many; of having it in one's power to pay
57off the debts of one's sex! Oh! I am sure it is not in woman's nature to refuse such a triumph." Fanny shook her head.
58"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered
59than a stander-by can judge of." "I do not defend him. I leave him entirely to your mercy, and when he has got you at
60Everingham, I do not care how much you lecture him. But this I will say, that his fault, the liking to make girls a
61little in love with him, is not half so dangerous to a wife's happiness as a tendency to fall in love himself, which he
62has never been addicted to. And I do seriously and truly believe that he is attached to you in a way that he never was
63to any woman before; that he loves you with all his heart, and will love you as nearly for ever as possible. If any man
64ever loved a woman for ever, I think Henry will do as much for you." Fanny could not avoid a faint smile, but had
65nothing to say. "I cannot imagine Henry ever to have been happier," continued Mary presently, "than when he had
66succeeded in getting your brother's commission." She had made a sure push at Fanny's feelings here. "Oh! yes. How very,
67very kind of him."
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