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1Elizabeth was, for a short time, suffering a good deal. She felt that Mrs Musgrove and all her party ought to be asked
2to dine with them; but she could not bear to have the difference of style, the reduction of servants, which a dinner
3must betray, witnessed by those who had been always so inferior to the Elliots of Kellynch. It was a struggle between
4propriety and vanity; but vanity got the better, and then Elizabeth was happy again. These were her internal
5persuasions: "Old fashioned notions; country hospitality; we do not profess to give dinners; few people in Bath do; Lady
6Alicia never does; did not even ask her own sister's family, though they were here a month: and I dare say it would be
7very inconvenient to Mrs Musgrove; put her quite out of her way. I am sure she would rather not come; she cannot feel
8easy with us. I will ask them all for an evening; that will be much better; that will be a novelty and a treat. They
9have not seen two such drawing rooms before. They will be delighted to come to-morrow evening. It shall be a regular
10party, small, but most elegant." And this satisfied Elizabeth: and when the invitation was given to the two present, and
11promised for the absent, Mary was as completely satisfied. She was particularly asked to meet Mr Elliot, and be
12introduced to Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret, who were fortunately already engaged to come; and she could not have
13received a more gratifying attention. Miss Elliot was to have the honour of calling on Mrs Musgrove in the course of the
14morning; and Anne walked off with Charles and Mary, to go and see her and Henrietta directly. Her plan of sitting with
15Lady Russell must give way for the present. They all three called in Rivers Street for a couple of minutes; but Anne
16convinced herself that a day's delay of the intended communication could be of no consequence, and hastened forward to
17the White Hart, to see again the friends and companions of the last autumn, with an eagerness of good-will which many
18associations contributed to form. They found Mrs Musgrove and her daughter within, and by themselves, and Anne had the
19kindest welcome from each. Henrietta was exactly in that state of recently-improved views, of fresh-formed happiness,
20which made her full of regard and interest for everybody she had ever liked before at all; and Mrs Musgrove's real
21affection had been won by her usefulness when they were in distress. It was a heartiness, and a warmth, and a sincerity
22which Anne delighted in the more, from the sad want of such blessings at home. She was entreated to give them as much of
23her time as possible, invited for every day and all day long, or rather claimed as part of the family; and, in return,
24she naturally fell into all her wonted ways of attention and assistance, and on Charles's leaving them together, was
25listening to Mrs Musgrove's history of Louisa, and to Henrietta's of herself, giving opinions on business, and
26recommendations to shops; with intervals of every help which Mary required, from altering her ribbon to settling her
27accounts; from finding her keys, and assorting her trinkets, to trying to convince her that she was not ill-used by
28anybody; which Mary, well amused as she generally was, in her station at a window overlooking the entrance to the Pump
29Room, could not but have her moments of imagining. A morning of thorough confusion was to be expected. A large party in
30an hotel ensured a quick-changing, unsettled scene. One five minutes brought a note, the next a parcel; and Anne had not
31been there half an hour, when their dining-room, spacious as it was, seemed more than half filled: a party of steady old
32friends were seated around Mrs Musgrove, and Charles came back with Captains Harville and Wentworth. The appearance of
33the latter could not be more than the surprise of the moment. It was impossible for her to have forgotten to feel that
34this arrival of their common friends must be soon bringing them together again. Their last meeting had been most
35important in opening his feelings; she had derived from it a delightful conviction; but she feared from his looks, that
36the same unfortunate persuasion, which had hastened him away from the Concert Room, still governed. He did not seem to
37want to be near enough for conversation. She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course, and tried to dwell
38much on this argument of rational dependence:--"Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must
39understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's
40inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness." And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their
41being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and
42misconstructions of the most mischievous kind. "Anne," cried Mary, still at her window, "there is Mrs Clay, I am sure,
43standing under the colonnade, and a gentleman with her. I saw them turn the corner from Bath Street just now. They
44seemed deep in talk. Who is it? Come, and tell me. Good heavens! I recollect. It is Mr Elliot himself." "No," cried
45Anne, quickly, "it cannot be Mr Elliot, I assure you. He was to leave Bath at nine this morning, and does not come back
46till to-morrow." As she spoke, she felt that Captain Wentworth was looking at her, the consciousness of which vexed and
47embarrassed her, and made her regret that she had said so much, simple as it was. Mary, resenting that she should be
48supposed not to know her own cousin, began talking very warmly about the family features, and protesting still more
49positively that it was Mr Elliot, calling again upon Anne to come and look for herself, but Anne did not mean to stir,
50and tried to be cool and unconcerned. Her distress returned, however, on perceiving smiles and intelligent glances pass
51between two or three of the lady visitors, as if they believed themselves quite in the secret. It was evident that the
52report concerning her had spread, and a short pause succeeded, which seemed to ensure that it would now spread farther.
53"Do come, Anne," cried Mary, "come and look yourself. You will be too late if you do not make haste. They are parting;
54they are shaking hands. He is turning away. Not know Mr Elliot, indeed! You seem to have forgot all about Lyme." To
55pacify Mary, and perhaps screen her own embarrassment, Anne did move quietly to the window. She was just in time to
56ascertain that it really was Mr Elliot, which she had never believed, before he disappeared on one side, as Mrs Clay
57walked quickly off on the other; and checking the surprise which she could not but feel at such an appearance of
58friendly conference between two persons of totally opposite interest, she calmly said, "Yes, it is Mr Elliot, certainly.
59He has changed his hour of going, I suppose, that is all, or I may be mistaken, I might not attend;" and walked back to
60her chair, recomposed, and with the comfortable hope of having acquitted herself well. The visitors took their leave;
61and Charles, having civilly seen them off, and then made a face at them, and abused them for coming, began with-- "Well,
62mother, I have done something for you that you will like. I have been to the theatre, and secured a box for to-morrow
63night. A'n't I a good boy? I know you love a play; and there is room for us all. It holds nine. I have engaged Captain
64Wentworth. Anne will not be sorry to join us, I am sure. We all like a play. Have not I done well, mother?" Mrs Musgrove
65was good humouredly beginning to express her perfect readiness for the play, if Henrietta and all the others liked it,
66when Mary eagerly interrupted her by exclaiming-- "Good heavens, Charles! how can you think of such a thing? Take a box
67for to-morrow night! Have you forgot that we are engaged to Camden Place to-morrow night? and that we were most
68particularly asked to meet Lady Dalrymple and her daughter, and Mr Elliot, and all the principal family connexions, on
69purpose to be introduced to them? How can you be so forgetful?" "Phoo! phoo!" replied Charles, "what's an evening party?
70Never worth remembering. Your father might have asked us to dinner, I think, if he had wanted to see us. You may do as
71you like, but I shall go to the play." "Oh! Charles, I declare it will be too abominable if you do, when you promised to
72go."
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