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1A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at Kellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come
2back warm in his praise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by the end of another week. It had
3been a great disappointment to Mr Musgrove to find that no earlier day could be fixed, so impatient was he to shew his
4gratitude, by seeing Captain Wentworth under his own roof, and welcoming him to all that was strongest and best in his
5cellars. But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she
6began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week. Captain Wentworth made a very early return to Mr Musgrove's
7civility, and she was all but calling there in the same half hour. She and Mary were actually setting forward for the
8Great House, where, as she afterwards learnt, they must inevitably have found him, when they were stopped by the eldest
9boy's being at that moment brought home in consequence of a bad fall. The child's situation put the visit entirely
10aside; but she could not hear of her escape with indifference, even in the midst of the serious anxiety which they
11afterwards felt on his account. His collar-bone was found to be dislocated, and such injury received in the back, as
12roused the most alarming ideas. It was an afternoon of distress, and Anne had every thing to do at once; the apothecary
13to send for, the father to have pursued and informed, the mother to support and keep from hysterics, the servants to
14control, the youngest child to banish, and the poor suffering one to attend and soothe; besides sending, as soon as she
15recollected it, proper notice to the other house, which brought her an accession rather of frightened, enquiring
16companions, than of very useful assistants. Her brother's return was the first comfort; he could take best care of his
17wife; and the second blessing was the arrival of the apothecary. Till he came and had examined the child, their
18apprehensions were the worse for being vague; they suspected great injury, but knew not where; but now the collar-bone
19was soon replaced, and though Mr Robinson felt and felt, and rubbed, and looked grave, and spoke low words both to the
20father and the aunt, still they were all to hope the best, and to be able to part and eat their dinner in tolerable ease
21of mind; and then it was, just before they parted, that the two young aunts were able so far to digress from their
22nephew's state, as to give the information of Captain Wentworth's visit; staying five minutes behind their father and
23mother, to endeavour to express how perfectly delighted they were with him, how much handsomer, how infinitely more
24agreeable they thought him than any individual among their male acquaintance, who had been at all a favourite before.
25How glad they had been to hear papa invite him to stay dinner, how sorry when he said it was quite out of his power, and
26how glad again when he had promised in reply to papa and mamma's farther pressing invitations to come and dine with them
27on the morrow--actually on the morrow; and he had promised it in so pleasant a manner, as if he felt all the motive of
28their attention just as he ought. And in short, he had looked and said everything with such exquisite grace, that they
29could assure them all, their heads were both turned by him; and off they ran, quite as full of glee as of love, and
30apparently more full of Captain Wentworth than of little Charles. The same story and the same raptures were repeated,
31when the two girls came with their father, through the gloom of the evening, to make enquiries; and Mr Musgrove, no
32longer under the first uneasiness about his heir, could add his confirmation and praise, and hope there would be now no
33occasion for putting Captain Wentworth off, and only be sorry to think that the cottage party, probably, would not like
34to leave the little boy, to give him the meeting. "Oh no; as to leaving the little boy," both father and mother were in
35much too strong and recent alarm to bear the thought; and Anne, in the joy of the escape, could not help adding her warm
36protestations to theirs. Charles Musgrove, indeed, afterwards, shewed more of inclination; "the child was going on so
37well, and he wished so much to be introduced to Captain Wentworth, that, perhaps, he might join them in the evening; he
38would not dine from home, but he might walk in for half an hour." But in this he was eagerly opposed by his wife, with
39"Oh! no, indeed, Charles, I cannot bear to have you go away. Only think if anything should happen?" The child had a good
40night, and was going on well the next day. It must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the
41spine; but Mr Robinson found nothing to increase alarm, and Charles Musgrove began, consequently, to feel no necessity
42for longer confinement. The child was to be kept in bed and amused as quietly as possible; but what was there for a
43father to do? This was quite a female case, and it would be highly absurd in him, who could be of no use at home, to
44shut himself up. His father very much wished him to meet Captain Wentworth, and there being no sufficient reason against
45it, he ought to go; and it ended in his making a bold, public declaration, when he came in from shooting, of his meaning
46to dress directly, and dine at the other house. "Nothing can be going on better than the child," said he; "so I told my
47father, just now, that I would come, and he thought me quite right. Your sister being with you, my love, I have no
48scruple at all. You would not like to leave him yourself, but you see I can be of no use. Anne will send for me if
49anything is the matter." Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. Mary knew, from Charles's
50manner of speaking, that he was quite determined on going, and that it would be of no use to teaze him. She said
51nothing, therefore, till he was out of the room, but as soon as there was only Anne to hear-- "So you and I are to be
52left to shift by ourselves, with this poor sick child; and not a creature coming near us all the evening! I knew how it
53would be. This is always my luck. If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it, and
54Charles is as bad as any of them. Very unfeeling! I must say it is very unfeeling of him to be running away from his
55poor little boy. Talks of his being going on so well! How does he know that he is going on well, or that there may not
56be a sudden change half an hour hence? I did not think Charles would have been so unfeeling. So here he is to go away
57and enjoy himself, and because I am the poor mother, I am not to be allowed to stir; and yet, I am sure, I am more unfit
58than anybody else to be about the child. My being the mother is the very reason why my feelings should not be tried. I
59am not at all equal to it. You saw how hysterical I was yesterday." "But that was only the effect of the suddenness of
60your alarm--of the shock. You will not be hysterical again. I dare say we shall have nothing to distress us. I perfectly
61understand Mr Robinson's directions, and have no fears; and indeed, Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband. Nursing does
62not belong to a man; it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property: her own feelings generally
63make it so." "I hope I am as fond of my child as any mother, but I do not know that I am of any more use in the
64sick-room than Charles, for I cannot be always scolding and teazing the poor child when it is ill; and you saw, this
65morning, that if I told him to keep quiet, he was sure to begin kicking about. I have not nerves for the sort of thing."
66"But, could you be comfortable yourself, to be spending the whole evening away from the poor boy?"
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