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1"My dear Harriet, I perfectly remember the substance of what I said on the occasion. I told you that I did not wonder at
2your attachment; that considering the service he had rendered you, it was extremely natural:--and you agreed to it,
3expressing yourself very warmly as to your sense of that service, and mentioning even what your sensations had been in
4seeing him come forward to your rescue.--The impression of it is strong on my memory." "Oh, dear," cried Harriet, "now I
5recollect what you mean; but I was thinking of something very different at the time. It was not the gipsies--it was not
6Mr. Frank Churchill that I meant. No! (with some elevation) I was thinking of a much more precious circumstance--of Mr.
7Knightley's coming and asking me to dance, when Mr. Elton would not stand up with me; and when there was no other
8partner in the room. That was the kind action; that was the noble benevolence and generosity; that was the service which
9made me begin to feel how superior he was to every other being upon earth." "Good God!" cried Emma, "this has been a
10most unfortunate--most deplorable mistake!--What is to be done?" "You would not have encouraged me, then, if you had
11understood me? At least, however, I cannot be worse off than I should have been, if the other had been the person; and
12now--it is possible--" She paused a few moments. Emma could not speak. "I do not wonder, Miss Woodhouse," she resumed,
13"that you should feel a great difference between the two, as to me or as to any body. You must think one five hundred
14million times more above me than the other. But I hope, Miss Woodhouse, that supposing--that if--strange as it may
15appear--. But you know they were your own words, that more wonderful things had happened, matches of greater disparity
16had taken place than between Mr. Frank Churchill and me; and, therefore, it seems as if such a thing even as this, may
17have occurred before--and if I should be so fortunate, beyond expression, as to--if Mr. Knightley should really--if he
18does not mind the disparity, I hope, dear Miss Woodhouse, you will not set yourself against it, and try to put
19difficulties in the way. But you are too good for that, I am sure." Harriet was standing at one of the windows. Emma
20turned round to look at her in consternation, and hastily said, "Have you any idea of Mr. Knightley's returning your
21affection?" "Yes," replied Harriet modestly, but not fearfully--"I must say that I have." Emma's eyes were instantly
22withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes. A few minutes were sufficient for
23making her acquainted with her own heart. A mind like hers, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress. She
24touched--she admitted--she acknowledged the whole truth. Why was it so much worse that Harriet should be in love with
25Mr. Knightley, than with Frank Churchill? Why was the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet's having some hope of a
26return? It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself! Her own
27conduct, as well as her own heart, was before her in the same few minutes. She saw it all with a clearness which had
28never blessed her before. How improperly had she been acting by Harriet! How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how
29irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct! What blindness, what madness, had led her on! It struck her with
30dreadful force, and she was ready to give it every bad name in the world. Some portion of respect for herself, however,
31in spite of all these demerits--some concern for her own appearance, and a strong sense of justice by Harriet--(there
32would be no need of compassion to the girl who believed herself loved by Mr. Knightley--but justice required that she
33should not be made unhappy by any coldness now,) gave Emma the resolution to sit and endure farther with calmness, with
34even apparent kindness.--For her own advantage indeed, it was fit that the utmost extent of Harriet's hopes should be
35enquired into; and Harriet had done nothing to forfeit the regard and interest which had been so voluntarily formed and
36maintained--or to deserve to be slighted by the person, whose counsels had never led her right.--Rousing from
37reflection, therefore, and subduing her emotion, she turned to Harriet again, and, in a more inviting accent, renewed
38the conversation; for as to the subject which had first introduced it, the wonderful story of Jane Fairfax, that was
39quite sunk and lost.--Neither of them thought but of Mr. Knightley and themselves. Harriet, who had been standing in no
40unhappy reverie, was yet very glad to be called from it, by the now encouraging manner of such a judge, and such a
41friend as Miss Woodhouse, and only wanted invitation, to give the history of her hopes with great, though trembling
42delight.--Emma's tremblings as she asked, and as she listened, were better concealed than Harriet's, but they were not
43less. Her voice was not unsteady; but her mind was in all the perturbation that such a development of self, such a burst
44of threatening evil, such a confusion of sudden and perplexing emotions, must create.--She listened with much inward
45suffering, but with great outward patience, to Harriet's detail.--Methodical, or well arranged, or very well delivered,
46it could not be expected to be; but it contained, when separated from all the feebleness and tautology of the narration,
47a substance to sink her spirit--especially with the corroborating circumstances, which her own memory brought in favour
48of Mr. Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet. Harriet had been conscious of a difference in his behaviour ever
49since those two decisive dances.--Emma knew that he had, on that occasion, found her much superior to his expectation.
50From that evening, or at least from the time of Miss Woodhouse's encouraging her to think of him, Harriet had begun to
51be sensible of his talking to her much more than he had been used to do, and of his having indeed quite a different
52manner towards her; a manner of kindness and sweetness!--Latterly she had been more and more aware of it. When they had
53been all walking together, he had so often come and walked by her, and talked so very delightfully!--He seemed to want
54to be acquainted with her. Emma knew it to have been very much the case. She had often observed the change, to almost
55the same extent.--Harriet repeated expressions of approbation and praise from him--and Emma felt them to be in the
56closest agreement with what she had known of his opinion of Harriet. He praised her for being without art or
57affectation, for having simple, honest, generous, feelings.--She knew that he saw such recommendations in Harriet; he
58had dwelt on them to her more than once.--Much that lived in Harriet's memory, many little particulars of the notice she
59had received from him, a look, a speech, a removal from one chair to another, a compliment implied, a preference
60inferred, had been unnoticed, because unsuspected, by Emma. Circumstances that might swell to half an hour's relation,
61and contained multiplied proofs to her who had seen them, had passed undiscerned by her who now heard them; but the two
62latest occurrences to be mentioned, the two of strongest promise to Harriet, were not without some degree of witness
63from Emma herself.--The first, was his walking with her apart from the others, in the lime-walk at Donwell, where they
64had been walking some time before Emma came, and he had taken pains (as she was convinced) to draw her from the rest to
65himself--and at first, he had talked to her in a more particular way than he had ever done before, in a very particular
66way indeed!--(Harriet could not recall it without a blush.) He seemed to be almost asking her, whether her affections
67were engaged.--But as soon as she (Miss Woodhouse) appeared likely to join them, he changed the subject, and began
68talking about farming:--The second, was his having sat talking with her nearly half an hour before Emma came back from
69her visit, the very last morning of his being at Hartfield--though, when he first came in, he had said that he could not
70stay five minutes--and his having told her, during their conversation, that though he must go to London, it was very
71much against his inclination that he left home at all, which was much more (as Emma felt) than he had acknowledged to
72her. The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain.
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