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1Anne went home to think over all that she had heard. In one point, her feelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr
2Elliot. There was no longer anything of tenderness due to him. He stood as opposed to Captain Wentworth, in all his own
3unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil of his attentions last night, the irremediable mischief he might have done, was
4considered with sensations unqualified, unperplexed. Pity for him was all over. But this was the only point of relief.
5In every other respect, in looking around her, or penetrating forward, she saw more to distrust and to apprehend. She
6was concerned for the disappointment and pain Lady Russell would be feeling; for the mortifications which must be
7hanging over her father and sister, and had all the distress of foreseeing many evils, without knowing how to avert any
8one of them. She was most thankful for her own knowledge of him. She had never considered herself as entitled to reward
9for not slighting an old friend like Mrs Smith, but here was a reward indeed springing from it! Mrs Smith had been able
10to tell her what no one else could have done. Could the knowledge have been extended through her family? But this was a
11vain idea. She must talk to Lady Russell, tell her, consult with her, and having done her best, wait the event with as
12much composure as possible; and after all, her greatest want of composure would be in that quarter of the mind which
13could not be opened to Lady Russell; in that flow of anxieties and fears which must be all to herself. She found, on
14reaching home, that she had, as she intended, escaped seeing Mr Elliot; that he had called and paid them a long morning
15visit; but hardly had she congratulated herself, and felt safe, when she heard that he was coming again in the evening.
16"I had not the smallest intention of asking him," said Elizabeth, with affected carelessness, "but he gave so many
17hints; so Mrs Clay says, at least." "Indeed, I do say it. I never saw anybody in my life spell harder for an invitation.
18Poor man! I was really in pain for him; for your hard-hearted sister, Miss Anne, seems bent on cruelty." "Oh!" cried
19Elizabeth, "I have been rather too much used to the game to be soon overcome by a gentleman's hints. However, when I
20found how excessively he was regretting that he should miss my father this morning, I gave way immediately, for I would
21never really omit an opportunity of bringing him and Sir Walter together. They appear to so much advantage in company
22with each other. Each behaving so pleasantly. Mr Elliot looking up with so much respect." "Quite delightful!" cried Mrs
23Clay, not daring, however, to turn her eyes towards Anne. "Exactly like father and son! Dear Miss Elliot, may I not say
24father and son?" "Oh! I lay no embargo on any body's words. If you will have such ideas! But, upon my word, I am
25scarcely sensible of his attentions being beyond those of other men." "My dear Miss Elliot!" exclaimed Mrs Clay, lifting
26her hands and eyes, and sinking all the rest of her astonishment in a convenient silence. "Well, my dear Penelope, you
27need not be so alarmed about him. I did invite him, you know. I sent him away with smiles. When I found he was really
28going to his friends at Thornberry Park for the whole day to-morrow, I had compassion on him." Anne admired the good
29acting of the friend, in being able to shew such pleasure as she did, in the expectation and in the actual arrival of
30the very person whose presence must really be interfering with her prime object. It was impossible but that Mrs Clay
31must hate the sight of Mr Elliot; and yet she could assume a most obliging, placid look, and appear quite satisfied with
32the curtailed license of devoting herself only half as much to Sir Walter as she would have done otherwise. To Anne
33herself it was most distressing to see Mr Elliot enter the room; and quite painful to have him approach and speak to
34her. She had been used before to feel that he could not be always quite sincere, but now she saw insincerity in
35everything. His attentive deference to her father, contrasted with his former language, was odious; and when she thought
36of his cruel conduct towards Mrs Smith, she could hardly bear the sight of his present smiles and mildness, or the sound
37of his artificial good sentiments. She meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a remonstrance on
38his side. It was a great object to her to escape all enquiry or eclat; but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool
39to him as might be compatible with their relationship; and to retrace, as quietly as she could, the few steps of
40unnecessary intimacy she had been gradually led along. She was accordingly more guarded, and more cool, than she had
41been the night before. He wanted to animate her curiosity again as to how and where he could have heard her formerly
42praised; wanted very much to be gratified by more solicitation; but the charm was broken: he found that the heat and
43animation of a public room was necessary to kindle his modest cousin's vanity; he found, at least, that it was not to be
44done now, by any of those attempts which he could hazard among the too-commanding claims of the others. He little
45surmised that it was a subject acting now exactly against his interest, bringing immediately to her thoughts all those
46parts of his conduct which were least excusable. She had some satisfaction in finding that he was really going out of
47Bath the next morning, going early, and that he would be gone the greater part of two days. He was invited again to
48Camden Place the very evening of his return; but from Thursday to Saturday evening his absence was certain. It was bad
49enough that a Mrs Clay should be always before her; but that a deeper hypocrite should be added to their party, seemed
50the destruction of everything like peace and comfort. It was so humiliating to reflect on the constant deception
51practised on her father and Elizabeth; to consider the various sources of mortification preparing for them! Mrs Clay's
52selfishness was not so complicate nor so revolting as his; and Anne would have compounded for the marriage at once, with
53all its evils, to be clear of Mr Elliot's subtleties in endeavouring to prevent it. On Friday morning she meant to go
54very early to Lady Russell, and accomplish the necessary communication; and she would have gone directly after
55breakfast, but that Mrs Clay was also going out on some obliging purpose of saving her sister trouble, which determined
56her to wait till she might be safe from such a companion. She saw Mrs Clay fairly off, therefore, before she began to
57talk of spending the morning in Rivers Street. "Very well," said Elizabeth, "I have nothing to send but my love. Oh! you
58may as well take back that tiresome book she would lend me, and pretend I have read it through. I really cannot be
59plaguing myself for ever with all the new poems and states of the nation that come out. Lady Russell quite bores one
60with her new publications. You need not tell her so, but I thought her dress hideous the other night. I used to think
61she had some taste in dress, but I was ashamed of her at the concert. Something so formal and arrangé in her air! and
62she sits so upright! My best love, of course." "And mine," added Sir Walter. "Kindest regards. And you may say, that I
63mean to call upon her soon. Make a civil message; but I shall only leave my card. Morning visits are never fair by women
64at her time of life, who make themselves up so little. If she would only wear rouge she would not be afraid of being
65seen; but last time I called, I observed the blinds were let down immediately." While her father spoke, there was a
66knock at the door. Who could it be? Anne, remembering the preconcerted visits, at all hours, of Mr Elliot, would have
67expected him, but for his known engagement seven miles off. After the usual period of suspense, the usual sounds of
68approach were heard, and "Mr and Mrs Charles Musgrove" were ushered into the room.
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