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1"Oh, no! I think not. Situated as we are with Lady Dalrymple, cousins, we ought to be very careful not to embarrass her
2with acquaintance she might not approve. If we were not related, it would not signify; but as cousins, she would feel
3scrupulous as to any proposal of ours. We had better leave the Crofts to find their own level. There are several
4odd-looking men walking about here, who, I am told, are sailors. The Crofts will associate with them." This was Sir
5Walter and Elizabeth's share of interest in the letter; when Mrs Clay had paid her tribute of more decent attention, in
6an enquiry after Mrs Charles Musgrove, and her fine little boys, Anne was at liberty. In her own room, she tried to
7comprehend it. Well might Charles wonder how Captain Wentworth would feel! Perhaps he had quitted the field, had given
8Louisa up, had ceased to love, had found he did not love her. She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or
9anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend. She could not endure that such a friendship as theirs should be
10severed unfairly. Captain Benwick and Louisa Musgrove! The high-spirited, joyous-talking Louisa Musgrove, and the
11dejected, thinking, feeling, reading, Captain Benwick, seemed each of them everything that would not suit the other.
12Their minds most dissimilar! Where could have been the attraction? The answer soon presented itself. It had been in
13situation. They had been thrown together several weeks; they had been living in the same small family party: since
14Henrietta's coming away, they must have been depending almost entirely on each other, and Louisa, just recovering from
15illness, had been in an interesting state, and Captain Benwick was not inconsolable. That was a point which Anne had not
16been able to avoid suspecting before; and instead of drawing the same conclusion as Mary, from the present course of
17events, they served only to confirm the idea of his having felt some dawning of tenderness toward herself. She did not
18mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might have allowed. She was persuaded that
19any tolerably pleasing young woman who had listened and seemed to feel for him would have received the same compliment.
20He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody. She saw no reason against their being happy. Louisa had fine naval
21fervour to begin with, and they would soon grow more alike. He would gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an
22enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron; nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they had fallen in love over
23poetry. The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into a person of literary taste, and sentimental reflection was amusing, but
24she had no doubt of its being so. The day at Lyme, the fall from the Cobb, might influence her health, her nerves, her
25courage, her character to the end of her life, as thoroughly as it appeared to have influenced her fate. The conclusion
26of the whole was, that if the woman who had been sensible of Captain Wentworth's merits could be allowed to prefer
27another man, there was nothing in the engagement to excite lasting wonder; and if Captain Wentworth lost no friend by
28it, certainly nothing to be regretted. No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and
29brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings
30which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy! She longed to see the Crofts; but when
31the meeting took place, it was evident that no rumour of the news had yet reached them. The visit of ceremony was paid
32and returned; and Louisa Musgrove was mentioned, and Captain Benwick, too, without even half a smile. The Crofts had
33placed themselves in lodgings in Gay Street, perfectly to Sir Walter's satisfaction. He was not at all ashamed of the
34acquaintance, and did, in fact, think and talk a great deal more about the Admiral, than the Admiral ever thought or
35talked about him. The Crofts knew quite as many people in Bath as they wished for, and considered their intercourse with
36the Elliots as a mere matter of form, and not in the least likely to afford them any pleasure. They brought with them
37their country habit of being almost always together. He was ordered to walk to keep off the gout, and Mrs Croft seemed
38to go shares with him in everything, and to walk for her life to do him good. Anne saw them wherever she went. Lady
39Russell took her out in her carriage almost every morning, and she never failed to think of them, and never failed to
40see them. Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched
41them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in
42happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old
43friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft
44looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her. Anne was too much engaged with Lady Russell to be
45often walking herself; but it so happened that one morning, about a week or ten days after the Croft's arrival, it
46suited her best to leave her friend, or her friend's carriage, in the lower part of the town, and return alone to Camden
47Place, and in walking up Milsom Street she had the good fortune to meet with the Admiral. He was standing by himself at
48a printshop window, with his hands behind him, in earnest contemplation of some print, and she not only might have
49passed him unseen, but was obliged to touch as well as address him before she could catch his notice. When he did
50perceive and acknowledge her, however, it was done with all his usual frankness and good humour. "Ha! is it you? Thank
51you, thank you. This is treating me like a friend. Here I am, you see, staring at a picture. I can never get by this
52shop without stopping. But what a thing here is, by way of a boat! Do look at it. Did you ever see the like? What queer
53fellows your fine painters must be, to think that anybody would venture their lives in such a shapeless old cockleshell
54as that? And yet here are two gentlemen stuck up in it mightily at their ease, and looking about them at the rocks and
55mountains, as if they were not to be upset the next moment, which they certainly must be. I wonder where that boat was
56built!" (laughing heartily); "I would not venture over a horsepond in it. Well," (turning away), "now, where are you
57bound? Can I go anywhere for you, or with you? Can I be of any use?" "None, I thank you, unless you will give me the
58pleasure of your company the little way our road lies together. I am going home." "That I will, with all my heart, and
59farther, too. Yes, yes we will have a snug walk together, and I have something to tell you as we go along. There, take
60my arm; that's right; I do not feel comfortable if I have not a woman there. Lord! what a boat it is!" taking a last
61look at the picture, as they began to be in motion. "Did you say that you had something to tell me, sir?"
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