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1After sitting with them a quarter of an hour, she rose to take leave, and was then most agreeably surprised by General
2Tilney's asking her if she would do his daughter the honour of dining and spending the rest of the day with her. Miss
3Tilney added her own wishes. Catherine was greatly obliged; but it was quite out of her power. Mr. and Mrs. Allen would
4expect her back every moment. The General declared he could say no more; the claims of Mr. and Mrs. Allen were not to be
5superseded; but on some other day he trusted, when longer notice could be given, they would not refuse to spare her to
6her friend. "Oh, no; Catherine was sure they would not have the least objection, and she should have great pleasure in
7coming." The General attended her himself to the street-door, saying everything gallant as they went downstairs,
8admiring the elasticity of her walk, which corresponded exactly with the spirit of her dancing, and making her one of
9the most graceful bows she had ever beheld, when they parted. Catherine, delighted by all that had passed, proceeded
10gaily to Pulteney Street, walking, as she concluded, with great elasticity, though she had never thought of it before.
11She reached home without seeing anything more of the offended party; and now that she had been triumphant throughout,
12had carried her point, and was secure of her walk, she began (as the flutter of her spirits subsided) to doubt whether
13she had been perfectly right. A sacrifice was always noble; and if she had given way to their entreaties, she should
14have been spared the distressing idea of a friend displeased, a brother angry, and a scheme of great happiness to both
15destroyed, perhaps through her means. To ease her mind, and ascertain by the opinion of an unprejudiced person what her
16own conduct had really been, she took occasion to mention before Mr. Allen the half-settled scheme of her brother and
17the Thorpes for the following day. Mr. Allen caught at it directly. "Well," said he, "and do you think of going too?"
18"No; I had just engaged myself to walk with Miss Tilney before they told me of it; and therefore you know I could not go
19with them, could I?" "No, certainly not; and I am glad you do not think of it. These schemes are not at all the thing.
20Young men and women driving about the country in open carriages! now and then it is very well; but going to inns and
21public places together! it is not right; and I wonder Mrs. Thorpe should allow it. I am glad you do not think of going;
22I am sure Mrs. Morland would not be pleased. Mrs. Allen, are not you of my way of thinking? Do not you think these kind
23of projects objectionable?" "Yes, very much so indeed. Open carriages are nasty things. A clean gown is not five
24minutes' wear in them. You are splashed getting in and getting out; and the wind takes your hair and your bonnet in
25every direction. I hate an open carriage myself." "I know you do; but that is not the question. Do not you think it has
26an odd appearance, if young ladies are frequently driven about in them by young men, to whom they are not even related?"
27"Yes, my dear, a very odd appearance indeed. I cannot bear to see it." "Dear madam," cried Catherine, "then why did not
28you tell me so before? I am sure if I had known it to be improper, I would not have gone with Mr. Thorpe at all; but I
29always hoped you would tell me, if you thought I was doing wrong." "And so I should, my dear, you may depend on it; for
30as I told Mrs. Morland at parting, I would always do the best for you in my power. But one must not be over particular.
31Young people will be young people, as your good mother says herself. You know I wanted you, when we first came, not to
32buy that sprigged muslin, but you would. Young people do not like to be always thwarted." "But this was something of
33real consequence; and I do not think you would have found me hard to persuade." "As far as it has gone hitherto, there
34is no harm done," said Mr. Allen; "and I would only advise you, my dear, not to go out with Mr. Thorpe any more." "That
35is just what I was going to say," added his wife. Catherine, relieved for herself, felt uneasy for Isabella, and after a
36moment's thought, asked Mr. Allen whether it would not be both proper and kind in her to write to Miss Thorpe, and
37explain the indecorum of which she must be as insensible as herself; for she considered that Isabella might otherwise
38perhaps be going to Clifton the next day, in spite of what had passed. Mr. Allen, however, discouraged her from doing
39any such thing. "You had better leave her alone, my dear; she is old enough to know what she is about, and if not, has a
40mother to advise her. Mrs. Thorpe is too indulgent beyond a doubt; but, however, you had better not interfere. She and
41your brother choose to go, and you will be only getting ill will." Catherine submitted, and though sorry to think that
42Isabella should be doing wrong, felt greatly relieved by Mr. Allen's approbation of her own conduct, and truly rejoiced
43to be preserved by his advice from the danger of falling into such an error herself. Her escape from being one of the
44party to Clifton was now an escape indeed; for what would the Tilneys have thought of her, if she had broken her promise
45to them in order to do what was wrong in itself, if she had been guilty of one breach of propriety, only to enable her
46to be guilty of another? CHAPTER 14 The next morning was fair, and Catherine almost expected another attack from the
47assembled party. With Mr. Allen to support her, she felt no dread of the event: but she would gladly be spared a
48contest, where victory itself was painful, and was heartily rejoiced therefore at neither seeing nor hearing anything of
49them. The Tilneys called for her at the appointed time; and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no
50unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to
51fulfil her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself. They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that
52noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in
53Bath. "I never look at it," said Catherine, as they walked along the side of the river, "without thinking of the south
54of France." "You have been abroad then?" said Henry, a little surprised. "Oh! no, I only mean what I have read about. It
55always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you
56never read novels, I dare say?" "Why not?" "Because they are not clever enough for you--gentlemen read better books."
57"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all
58Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and most of them with great pleasure. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I
59could not lay down again; I remember finishing it in two days--my hair standing on end the whole time." "Yes," added
60Miss Tilney, "and I remember that you undertook to read it aloud to me, and that when I was called away for only five
61minutes to answer a note, instead of waiting for me, you took the volume into the Hermitage Walk, and I was obliged to
62stay till you had finished it." "Thank you, Eleanor--a most honourable testimony. You see, Miss Morland, the injustice
63of your suspicions. Here was I, in my eagerness to get on, refusing to wait only five minutes for my sister, breaking
64the promise I had made of reading it aloud, and keeping her in suspense at a most interesting part, by running away with
65the volume, which, you are to observe, was her own, particularly her own. I am proud when I reflect on it, and I think
66it must establish me in your good opinion." "I am very glad to hear it indeed, and now I shall never be ashamed of
67liking Udolpho myself. But I really thought before, young men despised novels amazingly."
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