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1"Yes; you see his papa can, and why should not I? Jemima is so careful; and she could send us word every hour how he
2was. I really think Charles might as well have told his father we would all come. I am not more alarmed about little
3Charles now than he is. I was dreadfully alarmed yesterday, but the case is very different to-day." "Well, if you do not
4think it too late to give notice for yourself, suppose you were to go, as well as your husband. Leave little Charles to
5my care. Mr and Mrs Musgrove cannot think it wrong while I remain with him." "Are you serious?" cried Mary, her eyes
6brightening. "Dear me! that's a very good thought, very good, indeed. To be sure, I may just as well go as not, for I am
7of no use at home--am I? and it only harasses me. You, who have not a mother's feelings, are a great deal the properest
8person. You can make little Charles do anything; he always minds you at a word. It will be a great deal better than
9leaving him only with Jemima. Oh! I shall certainly go; I am sure I ought if I can, quite as much as Charles, for they
10want me excessively to be acquainted with Captain Wentworth, and I know you do not mind being left alone. An excellent
11thought of yours, indeed, Anne. I will go and tell Charles, and get ready directly. You can send for us, you know, at a
12moment's notice, if anything is the matter; but I dare say there will be nothing to alarm you. I should not go, you may
13be sure, if I did not feel quite at ease about my dear child." The next moment she was tapping at her husband's
14dressing-room door, and as Anne followed her up stairs, she was in time for the whole conversation, which began with
15Mary's saying, in a tone of great exultation-- "I mean to go with you, Charles, for I am of no more use at home than you
16are. If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not
17like. Anne will stay; Anne undertakes to stay at home and take care of him. It is Anne's own proposal, and so I shall go
18with you, which will be a great deal better, for I have not dined at the other house since Tuesday." "This is very kind
19of Anne," was her husband's answer, "and I should be very glad to have you go; but it seems rather hard that she should
20be left at home by herself, to nurse our sick child." Anne was now at hand to take up her own cause, and the sincerity
21of her manner being soon sufficient to convince him, where conviction was at least very agreeable, he had no farther
22scruples as to her being left to dine alone, though he still wanted her to join them in the evening, when the child
23might be at rest for the night, and kindly urged her to let him come and fetch her, but she was quite unpersuadable; and
24this being the case, she had ere long the pleasure of seeing them set off together in high spirits. They were gone, she
25hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself, she was left with as many
26sensations of comfort, as were, perhaps, ever likely to be hers. She knew herself to be of the first utility to the
27child; and what was it to her if Frederick Wentworth were only half a mile distant, making himself agreeable to others?
28She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such
29circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Had he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited
30till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when
31events had been early giving him the independence which alone had been wanting. Her brother and sister came back
32delighted with their new acquaintance, and their visit in general. There had been music, singing, talking, laughing, all
33that was most agreeable; charming manners in Captain Wentworth, no shyness or reserve; they seemed all to know each
34other perfectly, and he was coming the very next morning to shoot with Charles. He was to come to breakfast, but not at
35the Cottage, though that had been proposed at first; but then he had been pressed to come to the Great House instead,
36and he seemed afraid of being in Mrs Charles Musgrove's way, on account of the child, and therefore, somehow, they
37hardly knew how, it ended in Charles's being to meet him to breakfast at his father's. Anne understood it. He wished to
38avoid seeing her. He had inquired after her, she found, slightly, as might suit a former slight acquaintance, seeming to
39acknowledge such as she had acknowledged, actuated, perhaps, by the same view of escaping introduction when they were to
40meet. The morning hours of the Cottage were always later than those of the other house, and on the morrow the difference
41was so great that Mary and Anne were not more than beginning breakfast when Charles came in to say that they were just
42setting off, that he was come for his dogs, that his sisters were following with Captain Wentworth; his sisters meaning
43to visit Mary and the child, and Captain Wentworth proposing also to wait on her for a few minutes if not inconvenient;
44and though Charles had answered for the child's being in no such state as could make it inconvenient, Captain Wentworth
45would not be satisfied without his running on to give notice. Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted
46to receive him, while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the most consoling, that it would soon be
47over. And it was soon over. In two minutes after Charles's preparation, the others appeared; they were in the
48drawing-room. Her eye half met Captain Wentworth's, a bow, a curtsey passed; she heard his voice; he talked to Mary,
49said all that was right, said something to the Miss Musgroves, enough to mark an easy footing; the room seemed full,
50full of persons and voices, but a few minutes ended it. Charles shewed himself at the window, all was ready, their
51visitor had bowed and was gone, the Miss Musgroves were gone too, suddenly resolving to walk to the end of the village
52with the sportsmen: the room was cleared, and Anne might finish her breakfast as she could. "It is over! it is over!"
53she repeated to herself again and again, in nervous gratitude. "The worst is over!" Mary talked, but she could not
54attend. She had seen him. They had met. They had been once more in the same room. Soon, however, she began to reason
55with herself, and try to be feeling less. Eight years, almost eight years had passed, since all had been given up. How
56absurd to be resuming the agitation which such an interval had banished into distance and indistinctness! What might not
57eight years do? Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals--all, all must be comprised in it, and
58oblivion of the past-- how natural, how certain too! It included nearly a third part of her own life. Alas! with all her
59reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. Now, how were his
60sentiments to be read? Was this like wishing to avoid her? And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly
61which asked the question. On one other question which perhaps her utmost wisdom might not have prevented, she was soon
62spared all suspense; for, after the Miss Musgroves had returned and finished their visit at the Cottage she had this
63spontaneous information from Mary:-- "Captain Wentworth is not very gallant by you, Anne, though he was so attentive to
64me. Henrietta asked him what he thought of you, when they went away, and he said, 'You were so altered he should not
65have known you again.'" Mary had no feelings to make her respect her sister's in a common way, but she was perfectly
66unsuspicious of being inflicting any peculiar wound.
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