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1The remainder of Anne's time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days, was spent entirely at the Mansion House; and
2she had the satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an immediate companion, and as assisting in
3all those arrangements for the future, which, in Mr and Mrs Musgrove's distressed state of spirits, would have been
4difficulties. They had an early account from Lyme the next morning. Louisa was much the same. No symptoms worse than
5before had appeared. Charles came a few hours afterwards, to bring a later and more particular account. He was tolerably
6cheerful. A speedy cure must not be hoped, but everything was going on as well as the nature of the case admitted. In
7speaking of the Harvilles, he seemed unable to satisfy his own sense of their kindness, especially of Mrs Harville's
8exertions as a nurse. "She really left nothing for Mary to do. He and Mary had been persuaded to go early to their inn
9last night. Mary had been hysterical again this morning. When he came away, she was going to walk out with Captain
10Benwick, which, he hoped, would do her good. He almost wished she had been prevailed on to come home the day before; but
11the truth was, that Mrs Harville left nothing for anybody to do." Charles was to return to Lyme the same afternoon, and
12his father had at first half a mind to go with him, but the ladies could not consent. It would be going only to multiply
13trouble to the others, and increase his own distress; and a much better scheme followed and was acted upon. A chaise was
14sent for from Crewkherne, and Charles conveyed back a far more useful person in the old nursery-maid of the family, one
15who having brought up all the children, and seen the very last, the lingering and long-petted Master Harry, sent to
16school after his brothers, was now living in her deserted nursery to mend stockings and dress all the blains and bruises
17she could get near her, and who, consequently, was only too happy in being allowed to go and help nurse dear Miss
18Louisa. Vague wishes of getting Sarah thither, had occurred before to Mrs Musgrove and Henrietta; but without Anne, it
19would hardly have been resolved on, and found practicable so soon. They were indebted, the next day, to Charles Hayter,
20for all the minute knowledge of Louisa, which it was so essential to obtain every twenty-four hours. He made it his
21business to go to Lyme, and his account was still encouraging. The intervals of sense and consciousness were believed to
22be stronger. Every report agreed in Captain Wentworth's appearing fixed in Lyme. Anne was to leave them on the morrow,
23an event which they all dreaded. "What should they do without her? They were wretched comforters for one another." And
24so much was said in this way, that Anne thought she could not do better than impart among them the general inclination
25to which she was privy, and persuaded them all to go to Lyme at once. She had little difficulty; it was soon determined
26that they would go; go to-morrow, fix themselves at the inn, or get into lodgings, as it suited, and there remain till
27dear Louisa could be moved. They must be taking off some trouble from the good people she was with; they might at least
28relieve Mrs Harville from the care of her own children; and in short, they were so happy in the decision, that Anne was
29delighted with what she had done, and felt that she could not spend her last morning at Uppercross better than in
30assisting their preparations, and sending them off at an early hour, though her being left to the solitary range of the
31house was the consequence. She was the last, excepting the little boys at the cottage, she was the very last, the only
32remaining one of all that had filled and animated both houses, of all that had given Uppercross its cheerful character.
33A few days had made a change indeed! If Louisa recovered, it would all be well again. More than former happiness would
34be restored. There could not be a doubt, to her mind there was none, of what would follow her recovery. A few months
35hence, and the room now so deserted, occupied but by her silent, pensive self, might be filled again with all that was
36happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot! An hour's
37complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very
38few objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's carriage exceedingly
39welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage,
40with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of
41the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of
42many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of
43friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left
44it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been. Anne had never entered Kellynch since her
45quitting Lady Russell's house in September. It had not been necessary, and the few occasions of its being possible for
46her to go to the Hall she had contrived to evade and escape from. Her first return was to resume her place in the modern
47and elegant apartments of the Lodge, and to gladden the eyes of its mistress. There was some anxiety mixed with Lady
48Russell's joy in meeting her. She knew who had been frequenting Uppercross. But happily, either Anne was improved in
49plumpness and looks, or Lady Russell fancied her so; and Anne, in receiving her compliments on the occasion, had the
50amusement of connecting them with the silent admiration of her cousin, and of hoping that she was to be blessed with a
51second spring of youth and beauty. When they came to converse, she was soon sensible of some mental change. The subjects
52of which her heart had been full on leaving Kellynch, and which she had felt slighted, and been compelled to smother
53among the Musgroves, were now become but of secondary interest. She had lately lost sight even of her father and sister
54and Bath. Their concerns had been sunk under those of Uppercross; and when Lady Russell reverted to their former hopes
55and fears, and spoke her satisfaction in the house in Camden Place, which had been taken, and her regret that Mrs Clay
56should still be with them, Anne would have been ashamed to have it known how much more she was thinking of Lyme and
57Louisa Musgrove, and all her acquaintance there; how much more interesting to her was the home and the friendship of the
58Harvilles and Captain Benwick, than her own father's house in Camden Place, or her own sister's intimacy with Mrs Clay.
59She was actually forced to exert herself to meet Lady Russell with anything like the appearance of equal solicitude, on
60topics which had by nature the first claim on her. There was a little awkwardness at first in their discourse on another
61subject. They must speak of the accident at Lyme. Lady Russell had not been arrived five minutes the day before, when a
62full account of the whole had burst on her; but still it must be talked of, she must make enquiries, she must regret the
63imprudence, lament the result, and Captain Wentworth's name must be mentioned by both. Anne was conscious of not doing
64it so well as Lady Russell. She could not speak the name, and look straight forward to Lady Russell's eye, till she had
65adopted the expedient of telling her briefly what she thought of the attachment between him and Louisa. When this was
66told, his name distressed her no longer. Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally
67her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand
68somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.
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