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1"I had the pleasure of hearing it at Mr. Palmer's, where I have been dining." "Oh, you did; well, and how do they all do
2at their house? How does Charlotte do? I warrant you she is a fine size by this time." "Mrs. Palmer appeared quite well,
3and I am commissioned to tell you, that you will certainly see her to-morrow." "Ay, to be sure, I thought as much. Well,
4Colonel, I have brought two young ladies with me, you see--that is, you see but one of them now, but there is another
5somewhere. Your friend, Miss Marianne, too--which you will not be sorry to hear. I do not know what you and Mr.
6Willoughby will do between you about her. Ay, it is a fine thing to be young and handsome. Well! I was young once, but I
7never was very handsome--worse luck for me. However, I got a very good husband, and I don't know what the greatest
8beauty can do more. Ah! poor man! he has been dead these eight years and better. But Colonel, where have you been to
9since we parted? And how does your business go on? Come, come, let's have no secrets among friends." He replied with his
10accustomary mildness to all her inquiries, but without satisfying her in any. Elinor now began to make the tea, and
11Marianne was obliged to appear again. After her entrance, Colonel Brandon became more thoughtful and silent than he had
12been before, and Mrs. Jennings could not prevail on him to stay long. No other visitor appeared that evening, and the
13ladies were unanimous in agreeing to go early to bed. Marianne rose the next morning with recovered spirits and happy
14looks. The disappointment of the evening before seemed forgotten in the expectation of what was to happen that day. They
15had not long finished their breakfast before Mrs. Palmer's barouche stopped at the door, and in a few minutes she came
16laughing into the room: so delighted to see them all, that it was hard to say whether she received most pleasure from
17meeting her mother or the Miss Dashwoods again. So surprised at their coming to town, though it was what she had rather
18expected all along; so angry at their accepting her mother's invitation after having declined her own, though at the
19same time she would never have forgiven them if they had not come! "Mr. Palmer will be so happy to see you," said she;
20"What do you think he said when he heard of your coming with Mama? I forget what it was now, but it was something so
21droll!" After an hour or two spent in what her mother called comfortable chat, or in other words, in every variety of
22inquiry concerning all their acquaintance on Mrs. Jennings's side, and in laughter without cause on Mrs. Palmer's, it
23was proposed by the latter that they should all accompany her to some shops where she had business that morning, to
24which Mrs. Jennings and Elinor readily consented, as having likewise some purchases to make themselves; and Marianne,
25though declining it at first was induced to go likewise. Wherever they went, she was evidently always on the watch. In
26Bond Street especially, where much of their business lay, her eyes were in constant inquiry; and in whatever shop the
27party were engaged, her mind was equally abstracted from every thing actually before them, from all that interested and
28occupied the others. Restless and dissatisfied every where, her sister could never obtain her opinion of any article of
29purchase, however it might equally concern them both: she received no pleasure from anything; was only impatient to be
30at home again, and could with difficulty govern her vexation at the tediousness of Mrs. Palmer, whose eye was caught by
31every thing pretty, expensive, or new; who was wild to buy all, could determine on none, and dawdled away her time in
32rapture and indecision. It was late in the morning before they returned home; and no sooner had they entered the house
33than Marianne flew eagerly up stairs, and when Elinor followed, she found her turning from the table with a sorrowful
34countenance, which declared that no Willoughby had been there. "Has no letter been left here for me since we went out?"
35said she to the footman who then entered with the parcels. She was answered in the negative. "Are you quite sure of it?"
36she replied. "Are you certain that no servant, no porter has left any letter or note?" The man replied that none had.
37"How very odd!" said she, in a low and disappointed voice, as she turned away to the window. "How odd, indeed!" repeated
38Elinor within herself, regarding her sister with uneasiness. "If she had not known him to be in town she would not have
39written to him, as she did; she would have written to Combe Magna; and if he is in town, how odd that he should neither
40come nor write! Oh! my dear mother, you must be wrong in permitting an engagement between a daughter so young, a man so
41little known, to be carried on in so doubtful, so mysterious a manner! I long to inquire; and how will my interference
42be borne." She determined, after some consideration, that if appearances continued many days longer as unpleasant as
43they now were, she would represent in the strongest manner to her mother the necessity of some serious enquiry into the
44affair. Mrs. Palmer and two elderly ladies of Mrs. Jennings's intimate acquaintance, whom she had met and invited in the
45morning, dined with them. The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged
46to assist in making a whist table for the others. Marianne was of no use on these occasions, as she would never learn
47the game; but though her time was therefore at her own disposal, the evening was by no means more productive of pleasure
48to her than to Elinor, for it was spent in all the anxiety of expectation and the pain of disappointment. She sometimes
49endeavoured for a few minutes to read; but the book was soon thrown aside, and she returned to the more interesting
50employment of walking backwards and forwards across the room, pausing for a moment whenever she came to the window, in
51hopes of distinguishing the long-expected rap. CHAPTER XXVII. "If this open weather holds much longer," said Mrs.
52Jennings, when they met at breakfast the following morning, "Sir John will not like leaving Barton next week; 'tis a sad
53thing for sportsmen to lose a day's pleasure. Poor souls! I always pity them when they do; they seem to take it so much
54to heart." "That is true," cried Marianne, in a cheerful voice, and walking to the window as she spoke, to examine the
55day. "I had not thought of that. This weather will keep many sportsmen in the country." It was a lucky recollection, all
56her good spirits were restored by it. "It is charming weather for them indeed," she continued, as she sat down to the
57breakfast table with a happy countenance. "How much they must enjoy it! But" (with a little return of anxiety) "it
58cannot be expected to last long. At this time of the year, and after such a series of rain, we shall certainly have very
59little more of it. Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity. In another day or two perhaps; this
60extreme mildness can hardly last longer--nay, perhaps it may freeze tonight!" "At any rate," said Elinor, wishing to
61prevent Mrs. Jennings from seeing her sister's thoughts as clearly as she did, "I dare say we shall have Sir John and
62Lady Middleton in town by the end of next week." "Ay, my dear, I'll warrant you we do. Mary always has her own way."
63"And now," silently conjectured Elinor, "she will write to Combe by this day's post." But if she did, the letter was
64written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact. Whatever the truth of it
65might be, and far as Elinor was from feeling thorough contentment about it, yet while she saw Marianne in spirits, she
66could not be very uncomfortable herself. And Marianne was in spirits; happy in the mildness of the weather, and still
67happier in her expectation of a frost. The morning was chiefly spent in leaving cards at the houses of Mrs. Jennings's
68acquaintance to inform them of her being in town; and Marianne was all the time busy in observing the direction of the
69wind, watching the variations of the sky and imagining an alteration in the air.
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