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1"Yes, yes, my darling Isabella," said Mrs. Thorpe, "we perfectly see into your heart. You have no disguise. We perfectly
2understand the present vexation; and everybody must love you the better for such a noble honest affection." Catherine's
3uncomfortable feelings began to lessen. She endeavoured to believe that the delay of the marriage was the only source of
4Isabella's regret; and when she saw her at their next interview as cheerful and amiable as ever, endeavoured to forget
5that she had for a minute thought otherwise. James soon followed his letter, and was received with the most gratifying
6kindness. CHAPTER 17 The Allens had now entered on the sixth week of their stay in Bath; and whether it should be the
7last was for some time a question, to which Catherine listened with a beating heart. To have her acquaintance with the
8Tilneys end so soon was an evil which nothing could counterbalance. Her whole happiness seemed at stake, while the
9affair was in suspense, and everything secured when it was determined that the lodgings should be taken for another
10fortnight. What this additional fortnight was to produce to her beyond the pleasure of sometimes seeing Henry Tilney
11made but a small part of Catherine's speculation. Once or twice indeed, since James's engagement had taught her what
12could be done, she had got so far as to indulge in a secret "perhaps," but in general the felicity of being with him for
13the present bounded her views: the present was now comprised in another three weeks, and her happiness being certain for
14that period, the rest of her life was at such a distance as to excite but little interest. In the course of the morning
15which saw this business arranged, she visited Miss Tilney, and poured forth her joyful feelings. It was doomed to be a
16day of trial. No sooner had she expressed her delight in Mr. Allen's lengthened stay than Miss Tilney told her of her
17father's having just determined upon quitting Bath by the end of another week. Here was a blow! the past suspense of the
18morning had been ease and quiet to the present disappointment. Catherine's countenance fell, and in a voice of most
19sincere concern she echoed Miss Tilney's concluding words, "By the end of another week!" "Yes, my father can seldom be
20prevailed on to give the waters what I think a fair trial. He has been disappointed of some friends' arrival whom he
21expected to meet here, and as he is now pretty well, is in a hurry to get home." "I am very sorry for it," said
22Catherine dejectedly; "if I had known this before--" "Perhaps," said Miss Tilney in an embarrassed manner, "you would be
23so good--it would make me very happy if--" The entrance of her father put a stop to the civility, which Catherine was
24beginning to hope might introduce a desire of their corresponding. After addressing her with his usual politeness, he
25turned to his daughter and said, "Well, Eleanor, may I congratulate you on being successful in your application to your
26fair friend?" "I was just beginning to make the request, sir, as you came in." "Well, proceed by all means. I know how
27much your heart is in it. My daughter, Miss Morland," he continued, without leaving his daughter time to speak, "has
28been forming a very bold wish. We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight. A letter from my
29steward tells me that my presence is wanted at home; and being disappointed in my hope of seeing the Marquis of Longtown
30and General Courteney here, some of my very old friends, there is nothing to detain me longer in Bath. And could we
31carry our selfish point with you, we should leave it without a single regret. Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit
32this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company in Gloucestershire? I am almost ashamed to
33make the request, though its presumption would certainly appear greater to every creature in Bath than yourself. Modesty
34such as yours--but not for the world would I pain it by open praise. If you can be induced to honour us with a visit,
35you will make us happy beyond expression. 'Tis true, we can offer you nothing like the gaieties of this lively place; we
36can tempt you neither by amusement nor splendour, for our mode of living, as you see, is plain and unpretending; yet no
37endeavours shall be wanting on our side to make Northanger Abbey not wholly disagreeable." Northanger Abbey! these were
38thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy. Her grateful and gratified heart
39could hardly restrain its expressions within the language of tolerable calmness. To receive so flattering an invitation!
40to have her company so warmly solicited! everything honourable and soothing, every present enjoyment, and every future
41hope was contained in it; and her acceptance, with only the saving clause of Papa and Mamma's approbation, was eagerly
42given. "I will write home directly," said she, "and if they do not object, as I dare say they will not--" General Tilney
43was not less sanguine, having already waited on her excellent friends in Pulteney Street, and obtained their sanction of
44his wishes. "Since they can consent to part with you," said he, "we may expect philosophy from all the world." Miss
45Tilney was earnest, though gentle, in her secondary civilities, and the affair became in a few minutes as nearly settled
46as this necessary reference to Fullerton would allow. The circumstances of the morning had led Catherine's feelings
47through the varieties of suspense, security, and disappointment; but they were now safely lodged in perfect bliss; and
48with spirits elated to rapture, with Henry at her heart, and Northanger Abbey on her lips, she hurried home to write her
49letter. Mr. and Mrs. Morland, relying on the discretion of the friends to whom they had already entrusted their
50daughter, felt no doubt of the propriety of an acquaintance which had been formed under their eye, and sent therefore by
51return of post their ready consent to her visit in Gloucestershire. This indulgence, though not more than Catherine had
52hoped for, completed her conviction of being favoured beyond every other human creature, in friends and fortune,
53circumstance and chance. Everything seemed to cooperate for her advantage. By the kindness of her first friends, the
54Allens, she had been introduced into scenes where pleasures of every kind had met her. Her feelings, her preferences,
55had each known the happiness of a return. Wherever she felt attachment, she had been able to create it. The affection of
56Isabella was to be secured to her in a sister. The Tilneys, they, by whom, above all, she desired to be favourably
57thought of, outstripped even her wishes in the flattering measures by which their intimacy was to be continued. She was
58to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly
59prized--and, in addition to all the rest, this roof was to be the roof of an abbey! her passion for ancient edifices was
60next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney--and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which
61his image did not fill. To see and explore either the ramparts and keep of the one, or the cloisters of the other, had
62been for many weeks a darling wish, though to be more than the visitor of an hour had seemed too nearly impossible for
63desire. And yet, this was to happen. With all the chances against her of house, hall, place, park, court, and cottage,
64Northanger turned up an abbey, and she was to be its inhabitant. Its long, damp passages, its narrow cells and ruined
65chapel, were to be within her daily reach, and she could not entirely subdue the hope of some traditional legends, some
66awful memorials of an injured and ill-fated nun. It was wonderful that her friends should seem so little elated by the
67possession of such a home, that the consciousness of it should be so meekly borne. The power of early habit only could
68account for it. A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride. Their superiority of abode was no more to them
69than their superiority of person.
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