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1"Don't you find it colder than it was in the morning, Elinor? There seems to me a very decided difference. I can hardly
2keep my hands warm even in my muff. It was not so yesterday, I think. The clouds seem parting too, the sun will be out
3in a moment, and we shall have a clear afternoon." Elinor was alternately diverted and pained; but Marianne persevered,
4and saw every night in the brightness of the fire, and every morning in the appearance of the atmosphere, the certain
5symptoms of approaching frost. The Miss Dashwoods had no greater reason to be dissatisfied with Mrs. Jennings's style of
6living, and set of acquaintance, than with her behaviour to themselves, which was invariably kind. Every thing in her
7household arrangements was conducted on the most liberal plan, and excepting a few old city friends, whom, to Lady
8Middleton's regret, she had never dropped, she visited no one to whom an introduction could at all discompose the
9feelings of her young companions. Pleased to find herself more comfortably situated in that particular than she had
10expected, Elinor was very willing to compound for the want of much real enjoyment from any of their evening parties,
11which, whether at home or abroad, formed only for cards, could have little to amuse her. Colonel Brandon, who had a
12general invitation to the house, was with them almost every day; he came to look at Marianne and talk to Elinor, who
13often derived more satisfaction from conversing with him than from any other daily occurrence, but who saw at the same
14time with much concern his continued regard for her sister. She feared it was a strengthening regard. It grieved her to
15see the earnestness with which he often watched Marianne, and his spirits were certainly worse than when at Barton.
16About a week after their arrival, it became certain that Willoughby was also arrived. His card was on the table when
17they came in from the morning's drive. "Good God!" cried Marianne, "he has been here while we were out." Elinor,
18rejoiced to be assured of his being in London, now ventured to say, "Depend upon it, he will call again tomorrow." But
19Marianne seemed hardly to hear her, and on Mrs. Jennings's entrance, escaped with the precious card. This event, while
20it raised the spirits of Elinor, restored to those of her sister all, and more than all, their former agitation. From
21this moment her mind was never quiet; the expectation of seeing him every hour of the day, made her unfit for any thing.
22She insisted on being left behind, the next morning, when the others went out. Elinor's thoughts were full of what might
23be passing in Berkeley Street during their absence; but a moment's glance at her sister when they returned was enough to
24inform her, that Willoughby had paid no second visit there. A note was just then brought in, and laid on the table. "For
25me!" cried Marianne, stepping hastily forward. "No, ma'am, for my mistress." But Marianne, not convinced, took it
26instantly up. "It is indeed for Mrs. Jennings; how provoking!" "You are expecting a letter, then?" said Elinor, unable
27to be longer silent. "Yes, a little--not much." After a short pause. "You have no confidence in me, Marianne." "Nay,
28Elinor, this reproach from you--you who have confidence in no one!" "Me!" returned Elinor in some confusion; "indeed,
29Marianne, I have nothing to tell." "Nor I," answered Marianne with energy, "our situations then are alike. We have
30neither of us any thing to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing." Elinor,
31distressed by this charge of reserve in herself, which she was not at liberty to do away, knew not how, under such
32circumstances, to press for greater openness in Marianne. Mrs. Jennings soon appeared, and the note being given her, she
33read it aloud. It was from Lady Middleton, announcing their arrival in Conduit Street the night before, and requesting
34the company of her mother and cousins the following evening. Business on Sir John's part, and a violent cold on her own,
35prevented their calling in Berkeley Street. The invitation was accepted; but when the hour of appointment drew near,
36necessary as it was in common civility to Mrs. Jennings, that they should both attend her on such a visit, Elinor had
37some difficulty in persuading her sister to go, for still she had seen nothing of Willoughby; and therefore was not more
38indisposed for amusement abroad, than unwilling to run the risk of his calling again in her absence. Elinor found, when
39the evening was over, that disposition is not materially altered by a change of abode, for although scarcely settled in
40town, Sir John had contrived to collect around him, nearly twenty young people, and to amuse them with a ball. This was
41an affair, however, of which Lady Middleton did not approve. In the country, an unpremeditated dance was very allowable;
42but in London, where the reputation of elegance was more important and less easily attained, it was risking too much for
43the gratification of a few girls, to have it known that Lady Middleton had given a small dance of eight or nine couple,
44with two violins, and a mere side-board collation. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer were of the party; from the former, whom they had
45not seen before since their arrival in town, as he was careful to avoid the appearance of any attention to his
46mother-in-law, and therefore never came near her, they received no mark of recognition on their entrance. He looked at
47them slightly, without seeming to know who they were, and merely nodded to Mrs. Jennings from the other side of the
48room. Marianne gave one glance round the apartment as she entered: it was enough--he was not there--and she sat down,
49equally ill-disposed to receive or communicate pleasure. After they had been assembled about an hour, Mr. Palmer
50sauntered towards the Miss Dashwoods to express his surprise on seeing them in town, though Colonel Brandon had been
51first informed of their arrival at his house, and he had himself said something very droll on hearing that they were to
52come. "I thought you were both in Devonshire," said he. "Did you?" replied Elinor. "When do you go back again?" "I do
53not know." And thus ended their discourse. Never had Marianne been so unwilling to dance in her life, as she was that
54evening, and never so much fatigued by the exercise. She complained of it as they returned to Berkeley Street. "Aye,
55aye," said Mrs. Jennings, "we know the reason of all that very well; if a certain person who shall be nameless, had been
56there, you would not have been a bit tired: and to say the truth it was not very pretty of him not to give you the
57meeting when he was invited." "Invited!" cried Marianne. "So my daughter Middleton told me, for it seems Sir John met
58him somewhere in the street this morning." Marianne said no more, but looked exceedingly hurt. Impatient in this
59situation to be doing something that might lead to her sister's relief, Elinor resolved to write the next morning to her
60mother, and hoped by awakening her fears for the health of Marianne, to procure those inquiries which had been so long
61delayed; and she was still more eagerly bent on this measure by perceiving after breakfast on the morrow, that Marianne
62was again writing to Willoughby, for she could not suppose it to be to any other person. About the middle of the day,
63Mrs. Jennings went out by herself on business, and Elinor began her letter directly, while Marianne, too restless for
64employment, too anxious for conversation, walked from one window to the other, or sat down by the fire in melancholy
65meditation. Elinor was very earnest in her application to her mother, relating all that had passed, her suspicions of
66Willoughby's inconstancy, urging her by every plea of duty and affection to demand from Marianne an account of her real
67situation with respect to him.
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