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1Something had been said the evening before of her being shown over the house, and he now offered himself as her
2conductor; and though Catherine had hoped to explore it accompanied only by his daughter, it was a proposal of too much
3happiness in itself, under any circumstances, not to be gladly accepted; for she had been already eighteen hours in the
4abbey, and had seen only a few of its rooms. The netting-box, just leisurely drawn forth, was closed with joyful haste,
5and she was ready to attend him in a moment. "And when they had gone over the house, he promised himself moreover the
6pleasure of accompanying her into the shrubberies and garden." She curtsied her acquiescence. "But perhaps it might be
7more agreeable to her to make those her first object. The weather was at present favourable, and at this time of year
8the uncertainty was very great of its continuing so. Which would she prefer? He was equally at her service. Which did
9his daughter think would most accord with her fair friend's wishes? But he thought he could discern. Yes, he certainly
10read in Miss Morland's eyes a judicious desire of making use of the present smiling weather. But when did she judge
11amiss? The abbey would be always safe and dry. He yielded implicitly, and would fetch his hat and attend them in a
12moment." He left the room, and Catherine, with a disappointed, anxious face, began to speak of her unwillingness that he
13should be taking them out of doors against his own inclination, under a mistaken idea of pleasing her; but she was
14stopped by Miss Tilney's saying, with a little confusion, "I believe it will be wisest to take the morning while it is
15so fine; and do not be uneasy on my father's account; he always walks out at this time of day." Catherine did not
16exactly know how this was to be understood. Why was Miss Tilney embarrassed? Could there be any unwillingness on the
17General's side to show her over the abbey? The proposal was his own. And was not it odd that he should always take his
18walk so early? Neither her father nor Mr. Allen did so. It was certainly very provoking. She was all impatience to see
19the house, and had scarcely any curiosity about the grounds. If Henry had been with them indeed! But now she should not
20know what was picturesque when she saw it. Such were her thoughts, but she kept them to herself, and put on her bonnet
21in patient discontent. She was struck, however, beyond her expectation, by the grandeur of the abbey, as she saw it for
22the first time from the lawn. The whole building enclosed a large court; and two sides of the quadrangle, rich in Gothic
23ornaments, stood forward for admiration. The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations,
24and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, were beautiful even in the leafless month of March.
25Catherine had seen nothing to compare with it; and her feelings of delight were so strong, that without waiting for any
26better authority, she boldly burst forth in wonder and praise. The General listened with assenting gratitude; and it
27seemed as if his own estimation of Northanger had waited unfixed till that hour. The kitchen-garden was to be next
28admired, and he led the way to it across a small portion of the park. The number of acres contained in this garden was
29such as Catherine could not listen to without dismay, being more than double the extent of all Mr. Allen's, as well as
30her father's, including church-yard and orchard. The walls seemed countless in number, endless in length; a village of
31hot-houses seemed to arise among them, and a whole parish to be at work within the enclosure. The General was flattered
32by her looks of surprise, which told him almost as plainly, as he soon forced her to tell him in words, that she had
33never seen any gardens at all equal to them before; and he then modestly owned that, "without any ambition of that sort
34himself--without any solicitude about it--he did believe them to be unrivalled in the kingdom. If he had a hobby-horse,
35it was that. He loved a garden. Though careless enough in most matters of eating, he loved good fruit--or if he did not,
36his friends and children did. There were great vexations, however, attending such a garden as his. The utmost care could
37not always secure the most valuable fruits. The pinery had yielded only one hundred in the last year. Mr. Allen, he
38supposed, must feel these inconveniences as well as himself." "No, not at all. Mr. Allen did not care about the garden,
39and never went into it." With a triumphant smile of self-satisfaction, the General wished he could do the same, for he
40never entered his, without being vexed in some way or other, by its falling short of his plan. "How were Mr. Allen's
41succession-houses worked?" describing the nature of his own as they entered them. "Mr. Allen had only one small
42hot-house, which Mrs. Allen had the use of for her plants in winter, and there was a fire in it now and then." "He is a
43happy man!" said the General, with a look of very happy contempt. Having taken her into every division, and led her
44under every wall, till she was heartily weary of seeing and wondering, he suffered the girls at last to seize the
45advantage of an outer door, and then expressing his wish to examine the effect of some recent alterations about the
46tea-house, proposed it as no unpleasant extension of their walk, if Miss Morland were not tired. "But where are you
47going, Eleanor? Why do you choose that cold, damp path to it? Miss Morland will get wet. Our best way is across the
48park." "This is so favourite a walk of mine," said Miss Tilney, "that I always think it the best and nearest way. But
49perhaps it may be damp." It was a narrow winding path through a thick grove of old Scotch firs; and Catherine, struck by
50its gloomy aspect, and eager to enter it, could not, even by the General's disapprobation, be kept from stepping
51forward. He perceived her inclination, and having again urged the plea of health in vain, was too polite to make further
52opposition. He excused himself, however, from attending them: "The rays of the sun were not too cheerful for him, and he
53would meet them by another course." He turned away; and Catherine was shocked to find how much her spirits were relieved
54by the separation. The shock, however, being less real than the relief, offered it no injury; and she began to talk with
55easy gaiety of the delightful melancholy which such a grove inspired. "I am particularly fond of this spot," said her
56companion, with a sigh. "It was my mother's favourite walk." Catherine had never heard Mrs. Tilney mentioned in the
57family before, and the interest excited by this tender remembrance showed itself directly in her altered countenance,
58and in the attentive pause with which she waited for something more. "I used to walk here so often with her!" added
59Eleanor; "though I never loved it then, as I have loved it since. At that time indeed I used to wonder at her choice.
60But her memory endears it now." "And ought it not," reflected Catherine, "to endear it to her husband? Yet the General
61would not enter it." Miss Tilney continuing silent, she ventured to say, "Her death must have been a great affliction!"
62"A great and increasing one," replied the other, in a low voice. "I was only thirteen when it happened; and though I
63felt my loss perhaps as strongly as one so young could feel it, I did not, I could not, then know what a loss it was."
64She stopped for a moment, and then added, with great firmness, "I have no sister, you know--and though Henry--though my
65brothers are very affectionate, and Henry is a great deal here, which I am most thankful for, it is impossible for me
66not to be often solitary." "To be sure you must miss him very much." "A mother would have been always present. A mother
67would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other."
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