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1Catherine's disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious; but whatever might
2hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased. She
3could neither sit still nor employ herself for ten minutes together, walking round the garden and orchard again and
4again, as if nothing but motion was voluntary; and it seemed as if she could even walk about the house rather than
5remain fixed for any time in the parlour. Her loss of spirits was a yet greater alteration. In her rambling and her
6idleness she might only be a caricature of herself; but in her silence and sadness she was the very reverse of all that
7she had been before. For two days Mrs. Morland allowed it to pass even without a hint; but when a third night's rest had
8neither restored her cheerfulness, improved her in useful activity, nor given her a greater inclination for needlework,
9she could no longer refrain from the gentle reproof of, "My dear Catherine, I am afraid you are growing quite a fine
10lady. I do not know when poor Richard's cravats would be done, if he had no friend but you. Your head runs too much upon
11Bath; but there is a time for everything--a time for balls and plays, and a time for work. You have had a long run of
12amusement, and now you must try to be useful." Catherine took up her work directly, saying, in a dejected voice, that
13"her head did not run upon Bath--much." "Then you are fretting about General Tilney, and that is very simple of you; for
14ten to one whether you ever see him again. You should never fret about trifles." After a short silence--"I hope, my
15Catherine, you are not getting out of humour with home because it is not so grand as Northanger. That would be turning
16your visit into an evil indeed. Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there
17you must spend the most of your time. I did not quite like, at breakfast, to hear you talk so much about the French
18bread at Northanger." "I am sure I do not care about the bread. It is all the same to me what I eat." "There is a very
19clever essay in one of the books upstairs upon much such a subject, about young girls that have been spoilt for home by
20great acquaintance--The Mirror, I think. I will look it out for you some day or other, because I am sure it will do you
21good." Catherine said no more, and, with an endeavour to do right, applied to her work; but, after a few minutes, sunk
22again, without knowing it herself, into languor and listlessness, moving herself in her chair, from the irritation of
23weariness, much oftener than she moved her needle. Mrs. Morland watched the progress of this relapse; and seeing, in her
24daughter's absent and dissatisfied look, the full proof of that repining spirit to which she had now begun to attribute
25her want of cheerfulness, hastily left the room to fetch the book in question, anxious to lose no time in attacking so
26dreadful a malady. It was some time before she could find what she looked for; and other family matters occurring to
27detain her, a quarter of an hour had elapsed ere she returned downstairs with the volume from which so much was hoped.
28Her avocations above having shut out all noise but what she created herself, she knew not that a visitor had arrived
29within the last few minutes, till, on entering the room, the first object she beheld was a young man whom she had never
30seen before. With a look of much respect, he immediately rose, and being introduced to her by her conscious daughter as
31"Mr. Henry Tilney," with the embarrassment of real sensibility began to apologize for his appearance there,
32acknowledging that after what had passed he had little right to expect a welcome at Fullerton, and stating his
33impatience to be assured of Miss Morland's having reached her home in safety, as the cause of his intrusion. He did not
34address himself to an uncandid judge or a resentful heart. Far from comprehending him or his sister in their father's
35misconduct, Mrs. Morland had been always kindly disposed towards each, and instantly, pleased by his appearance,
36received him with the simple professions of unaffected benevolence; thanking him for such an attention to her daughter,
37assuring him that the friends of her children were always welcome there, and entreating him to say not another word of
38the past. He was not ill-inclined to obey this request, for, though his heart was greatly relieved by such unlooked-for
39mildness, it was not just at that moment in his power to say anything to the purpose. Returning in silence to his seat,
40therefore, he remained for some minutes most civilly answering all Mrs. Morland's common remarks about the weather and
41roads. Catherine meanwhile--the anxious, agitated, happy, feverish Catherine--said not a word; but her glowing cheek and
42brightened eye made her mother trust that this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time, and
43gladly therefore did she lay aside the first volume of The Mirror for a future hour. Desirous of Mr. Morland's
44assistance, as well in giving encouragement, as in finding conversation for her guest, whose embarrassment on his
45father's account she earnestly pitied, Mrs. Morland had very early dispatched one of the children to summon him; but Mr.
46Morland was from home--and being thus without any support, at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say.
47After a couple of minutes' unbroken silence, Henry, turning to Catherine for the first time since her mother's entrance,
48asked her, with sudden alacrity, if Mr. and Mrs. Allen were now at Fullerton? And on developing, from amidst all her
49perplexity of words in reply, the meaning, which one short syllable would have given, immediately expressed his
50intention of paying his respects to them, and, with a rising colour, asked her if she would have the goodness to show
51him the way. "You may see the house from this window, sir," was information on Sarah's side, which produced only a bow
52of acknowledgment from the gentleman, and a silencing nod from her mother; for Mrs. Morland, thinking it probable, as a
53secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbours, that he might have some explanation to give
54of his father's behaviour, which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to Catherine, would not on any
55account prevent her accompanying him. They began their walk, and Mrs. Morland was not entirely mistaken in his object in
56wishing it. Some explanation on his father's account he had to give; but his first purpose was to explain himself, and
57before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated
58too often. She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally
59knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in
60all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society, I must confess that his affection originated in
61nothing better than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause
62of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of an
63heroine's dignity; but if it be as new in common life, the credit of a wild imagination will at least be all my own. A
64very short visit to Mrs. Allen, in which Henry talked at random, without sense or connection, and Catherine, wrapt in
65the contemplation of her own unutterable happiness, scarcely opened her lips, dismissed them to the ecstasies of another
66tête-à-tête; and before it was suffered to close, she was enabled to judge how far he was sanctioned by parental
67authority in his present application. On his return from Woodston, two days before, he had been met near the abbey by
68his impatient father, hastily informed in angry terms of Miss Morland's departure, and ordered to think of her no more.
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