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1"No, I did not promise. I only smirked and bowed, and said the word 'happy.' There was no promise." "But you must go,
2Charles. It would be unpardonable to fail. We were asked on purpose to be introduced. There was always such a great
3connexion between the Dalrymples and ourselves. Nothing ever happened on either side that was not announced immediately.
4We are quite near relations, you know; and Mr Elliot too, whom you ought so particularly to be acquainted with! Every
5attention is due to Mr Elliot. Consider, my father's heir: the future representative of the family." "Don't talk to me
6about heirs and representatives," cried Charles. "I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the
7rising sun. If I would not go for the sake of your father, I should think it scandalous to go for the sake of his heir.
8What is Mr Elliot to me?" The careless expression was life to Anne, who saw that Captain Wentworth was all attention,
9looking and listening with his whole soul; and that the last words brought his enquiring eyes from Charles to herself.
10Charles and Mary still talked on in the same style; he, half serious and half jesting, maintaining the scheme for the
11play, and she, invariably serious, most warmly opposing it, and not omitting to make it known that, however determined
12to go to Camden Place herself, she should not think herself very well used, if they went to the play without her. Mrs
13Musgrove interposed. "We had better put it off. Charles, you had much better go back and change the box for Tuesday. It
14would be a pity to be divided, and we should be losing Miss Anne, too, if there is a party at her father's; and I am
15sure neither Henrietta nor I should care at all for the play, if Miss Anne could not be with us." Anne felt truly
16obliged to her for such kindness; and quite as much so for the opportunity it gave her of decidedly saying-- "If it
17depended only on my inclination, ma'am, the party at home (excepting on Mary's account) would not be the smallest
18impediment. I have no pleasure in the sort of meeting, and should be too happy to change it for a play, and with you.
19But, it had better not be attempted, perhaps." She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her
20words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect. It was soon generally agreed that Tuesday
21should be the day; Charles only reserving the advantage of still teasing his wife, by persisting that he would go to the
22play to-morrow if nobody else would. Captain Wentworth left his seat, and walked to the fire-place; probably for the
23sake of walking away from it soon afterwards, and taking a station, with less bare-faced design, by Anne. "You have not
24been long enough in Bath," said he, "to enjoy the evening parties of the place." "Oh! no. The usual character of them
25has nothing for me. I am no card-player." "You were not formerly, I know. You did not use to like cards; but time makes
26many changes." "I am not yet so much changed," cried Anne, and stopped, fearing she hardly knew what misconstruction.
27After waiting a few moments he said, and as if it were the result of immediate feeling, "It is a period, indeed! Eight
28years and a half is a period." Whether he would have proceeded farther was left to Anne's imagination to ponder over in
29a calmer hour; for while still hearing the sounds he had uttered, she was startled to other subjects by Henrietta, eager
30to make use of the present leisure for getting out, and calling on her companions to lose no time, lest somebody else
31should come in. They were obliged to move. Anne talked of being perfectly ready, and tried to look it; but she felt that
32could Henrietta have known the regret and reluctance of her heart in quitting that chair, in preparing to quit the room,
33she would have found, in all her own sensations for her cousin, in the very security of his affection, wherewith to pity
34her. Their preparations, however, were stopped short. Alarming sounds were heard; other visitors approached, and the
35door was thrown open for Sir Walter and Miss Elliot, whose entrance seemed to give a general chill. Anne felt an instant
36oppression, and wherever she looked saw symptoms of the same. The comfort, the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over,
37hushed into cold composure, determined silence, or insipid talk, to meet the heartless elegance of her father and
38sister. How mortifying to feel that it was so! Her jealous eye was satisfied in one particular. Captain Wentworth was
39acknowledged again by each, by Elizabeth more graciously than before. She even addressed him once, and looked at him
40more than once. Elizabeth was, in fact, revolving a great measure. The sequel explained it. After the waste of a few
41minutes in saying the proper nothings, she began to give the invitation which was to comprise all the remaining dues of
42the Musgroves. "To-morrow evening, to meet a few friends: no formal party." It was all said very gracefully, and the
43cards with which she had provided herself, the "Miss Elliot at home," were laid on the table, with a courteous,
44comprehensive smile to all, and one smile and one card more decidedly for Captain Wentworth. The truth was, that
45Elizabeth had been long enough in Bath to understand the importance of a man of such an air and appearance as his. The
46past was nothing. The present was that Captain Wentworth would move about well in her drawing-room. The card was
47pointedly given, and Sir Walter and Elizabeth arose and disappeared. The interruption had been short, though severe, and
48ease and animation returned to most of those they left as the door shut them out, but not to Anne. She could think only
49of the invitation she had with such astonishment witnessed, and of the manner in which it had been received; a manner of
50doubtful meaning, of surprise rather than gratification, of polite acknowledgement rather than acceptance. She knew him;
51she saw disdain in his eye, and could not venture to believe that he had determined to accept such an offering, as an
52atonement for all the insolence of the past. Her spirits sank. He held the card in his hand after they were gone, as if
53deeply considering it. "Only think of Elizabeth's including everybody!" whispered Mary very audibly. "I do not wonder
54Captain Wentworth is delighted! You see he cannot put the card out of his hand." Anne caught his eye, saw his cheeks
55glow, and his mouth form itself into a momentary expression of contempt, and turned away, that she might neither see nor
56hear more to vex her. The party separated. The gentlemen had their own pursuits, the ladies proceeded on their own
57business, and they met no more while Anne belonged to them. She was earnestly begged to return and dine, and give them
58all the rest of the day, but her spirits had been so long exerted that at present she felt unequal to more, and fit only
59for home, where she might be sure of being as silent as she chose. Promising to be with them the whole of the following
60morning, therefore, she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, there to spend the
61evening chiefly in listening to the busy arrangements of Elizabeth and Mrs Clay for the morrow's party, the frequent
62enumeration of the persons invited, and the continually improving detail of all the embellishments which were to make it
63the most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing herself with the never-ending question, of whether
64Captain Wentworth would come or not? They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a gnawing solicitude never
65appeased for five minutes together. She generally thought he would come, because she generally thought he ought; but it
66was a case which she could not so shape into any positive act of duty or discretion, as inevitably to defy the
67suggestions of very opposite feelings.
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