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1The progress of Catherine's unhappiness from the events of the evening was as follows. It appeared first in a general
2dissatisfaction with everybody about her, while she remained in the rooms, which speedily brought on considerable
3weariness and a violent desire to go home. This, on arriving in Pulteney Street, took the direction of extraordinary
4hunger, and when that was appeased, changed into an earnest longing to be in bed; such was the extreme point of her
5distress; for when there she immediately fell into a sound sleep which lasted nine hours, and from which she awoke
6perfectly revived, in excellent spirits, with fresh hopes and fresh schemes. The first wish of her heart was to improve
7her acquaintance with Miss Tilney, and almost her first resolution, to seek her for that purpose, in the pump-room at
8noon. In the pump-room, one so newly arrived in Bath must be met with, and that building she had already found so
9favourable for the discovery of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for
10secret discourses and unlimited confidence, that she was most reasonably encouraged to expect another friend from within
11its walls. Her plan for the morning thus settled, she sat quietly down to her book after breakfast, resolving to remain
12in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very little incommoded by the
13remarks and ejaculations of Mrs. Allen, whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such, that as she never
14talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and, therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her
15needle or broke her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon her gown, she must observe it
16aloud, whether there were anyone at leisure to answer her or not. At about half past twelve, a remarkably loud rap drew
17her in haste to the window, and scarcely had she time to inform Catherine of there being two open carriages at the door,
18in the first only a servant, her brother driving Miss Thorpe in the second, before John Thorpe came running upstairs,
19calling out, "Well, Miss Morland, here I am. Have you been waiting long? We could not come before; the old devil of a
20coachmaker was such an eternity finding out a thing fit to be got into, and now it is ten thousand to one but they break
21down before we are out of the street. How do you do, Mrs. Allen? A famous ball last night, was not it? Come, Miss
22Morland, be quick, for the others are in a confounded hurry to be off. They want to get their tumble over." "What do you
23mean?" said Catherine. "Where are you all going to?" "Going to? Why, you have not forgot our engagement! did not we
24agree together to take a drive this morning? What a head you have! we are going up Claverton Down." "Something was said
25about it, I remember," said Catherine, looking at Mrs. Allen for her opinion; "but really I did not expect you." "Not
26expect me! that's a good one! and what a dust you would have made, if I had not come." Catherine's silent appeal to her
27friend, meanwhile, was entirely thrown away, for Mrs. Allen, not being at all in the habit of conveying any expression
28herself by a look, was not aware of its being ever intended by anybody else; and Catherine, whose desire of seeing Miss
29Tilney again could at that moment bear a short delay in favour of a drive, and who thought there could be no impropriety
30in her going with Mr. Thorpe, as Isabella was going at the same time with James, was therefore obliged to speak plainer.
31"Well, ma'am, what do you say to it? Can you spare me for an hour or two? Shall I go?" "Do just as you please, my dear,"
32replied Mrs. Allen, with the most placid indifference. Catherine took the advice, and ran off to get ready. In a very
33few minutes she reappeared, having scarcely allowed the two others time enough to get through a few short sentences in
34her praise, after Thorpe had procured Mrs. Allen's admiration of his gig; and then receiving her friend's parting good
35wishes, they both hurried downstairs. "My dearest creature," cried Isabella, to whom the duty of friendship immediately
36called her before she could get into the carriage, "you have been at least three hours getting ready. I was afraid you
37were ill. What a delightful ball we had last night. I have a thousand things to say to you; but make haste and get in,
38for I long to be off." Catherine followed her orders and turned away, but not too soon to hear her friend exclaim aloud
39to James, "What a sweet girl she is! i quite dote on her." "You will not be frightened, Miss Morland," said Thorpe, as
40he handed her in, "if my horse should dance about a little at first setting off. He will, most likely, give a plunge or
41two, and perhaps take the rest for a minute; but he will soon know his master. He is full of spirits, playful as can be,
42but there is no vice in him." Catherine did not think the portrait a very inviting one, but it was too late to retreat,
43and she was too young to own herself frightened; so, resigning herself to her fate, and trusting to the animal's boasted
44knowledge of its owner, she sat peaceably down, and saw Thorpe sit down by her. Everything being then arranged, the
45servant who stood at the horse's head was bid in an important voice "to let him go," and off they went in the quietest
46manner imaginable, without a plunge or a caper, or anything like one. Catherine, delighted at so happy an escape, spoke
47her pleasure aloud with grateful surprise; and her companion immediately made the matter perfectly simple by assuring
48her that it was entirely owing to the peculiarly judicious manner in which he had then held the reins, and the singular
49discernment and dexterity with which he had directed his whip. Catherine, though she could not help wondering that with
50such perfect command of his horse, he should think it necessary to alarm her with a relation of its tricks,
51congratulated herself sincerely on being under the care of so excellent a coachman; and perceiving that the animal
52continued to go on in the same quiet manner, without showing the smallest propensity towards any unpleasant vivacity,
53and (considering its inevitable pace was ten miles an hour) by no means alarmingly fast, gave herself up to all the
54enjoyment of air and exercise of the most invigorating kind, in a fine mild day of February, with the consciousness of
55safety. A silence of several minutes succeeded their first short dialogue; it was broken by Thorpe's saying very
56abruptly, "Old Allen is as rich as a Jew--is not he?" Catherine did not understand him--and he repeated his question,
57adding in explanation, "Old Allen, the man you are with." "Oh! mr. Allen, you mean. Yes, I believe, he is very rich."
58"And no children at all?" "No--not any." "A famous thing for his next heirs. He is your godfather, is not he?" "My
59godfather! no." "But you are always very much with them." "Yes, very much." "Aye, that is what I meant. He seems a good
60kind of old fellow enough, and has lived very well in his time, I dare say; he is not gouty for nothing. Does he drink
61his bottle a day now?" "His bottle a day! no. Why should you think of such a thing? He is a very temperate man, and you
62could not fancy him in liquor last night?" "Lord help you! you women are always thinking of men's being in liquor. Why,
63you do not suppose a man is overset by a bottle? I am sure of this--that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day,
64there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all." "I cannot
65believe it." "Oh! lord, it would be the saving of thousands. There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in
66this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help." "And yet I have heard that there is a great deal of
67wine drunk in Oxford."
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