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1A quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, passed away, and Fanny was still thinking of Edmund, Miss Crawford, and herself,
2without interruption from any one. She began to be surprised at being left so long, and to listen with an anxious desire
3of hearing their steps and their voices again. She listened, and at length she heard; she heard voices and feet
4approaching; but she had just satisfied herself that it was not those she wanted, when Miss Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, and
5Mr. Crawford issued from the same path which she had trod herself, and were before her. "Miss Price all alone" and "My
6dear Fanny, how comes this?" were the first salutations. She told her story. "Poor dear Fanny," cried her cousin, "how
7ill you have been used by them! You had better have staid with us." Then seating herself with a gentleman on each side,
8she resumed the conversation which had engaged them before, and discussed the possibility of improvements with much
9animation. Nothing was fixed on; but Henry Crawford was full of ideas and projects, and, generally speaking, whatever he
10proposed was immediately approved, first by her, and then by Mr. Rushworth, whose principal business seemed to be to
11hear the others, and who scarcely risked an original thought of his own beyond a wish that they had seen his friend
12Smith's place. After some minutes spent in this way, Miss Bertram, observing the iron gate, expressed a wish of passing
13through it into the park, that their views and their plans might be more comprehensive. It was the very thing of all
14others to be wished, it was the best, it was the only way of proceeding with any advantage, in Henry Crawford's opinion;
15and he directly saw a knoll not half a mile off, which would give them exactly the requisite command of the house. Go
16therefore they must to that knoll, and through that gate; but the gate was locked. Mr. Rushworth wished he had brought
17the key; he had been very near thinking whether he should not bring the key; he was determined he would never come
18without the key again; but still this did not remove the present evil. They could not get through; and as Miss Bertram's
19inclination for so doing did by no means lessen, it ended in Mr. Rushworth's declaring outright that he would go and
20fetch the key. He set off accordingly. "It is undoubtedly the best thing we can do now, as we are so far from the house
21already," said Mr. Crawford, when he was gone. "Yes, there is nothing else to be done. But now, sincerely, do not you
22find the place altogether worse than you expected?" "No, indeed, far otherwise. I find it better, grander, more complete
23in its style, though that style may not be the best. And to tell you the truth," speaking rather lower, "I do not think
24that I shall ever see Sotherton again with so much pleasure as I do now. Another summer will hardly improve it to me."
25After a moment's embarrassment the lady replied, "You are too much a man of the world not to see with the eyes of the
26world. If other people think Sotherton improved, I have no doubt that you will." "I am afraid I am not quite so much the
27man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the
28past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world." This was followed by a short silence.
29Miss Bertram began again. "You seemed to enjoy your drive here very much this morning. I was glad to see you so well
30entertained. You and Julia were laughing the whole way." "Were we? Yes, I believe we were; but I have not the least
31recollection at what. Oh! I believe I was relating to her some ridiculous stories of an old Irish groom of my uncle's.
32Your sister loves to laugh." "You think her more light-hearted than I am?" "More easily amused," he replied;
33"consequently, you know," smiling, "better company. I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during
34a ten miles' drive." "Naturally, I believe, I am as lively as Julia, but I have more to think of now." "You have,
35undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility. Your prospects, however,
36are too fair to justify want of spirits. You have a very smiling scene before you." "Do you mean literally or
37figuratively? Literally, I conclude. Yes, certainly, the sun shines, and the park looks very cheerful. But unluckily
38that iron gate, that ha-ha, give me a feeling of restraint and hardship. 'I cannot get out,' as the starling said." As
39she spoke, and it was with expression, she walked to the gate: he followed her. "Mr. Rushworth is so long fetching this
40key!" "And for the world you would not get out without the key and without Mr. Rushworth's authority and protection, or
41I think you might with little difficulty pass round the edge of the gate, here, with my assistance; I think it might be
42done, if you really wished to be more at large, and could allow yourself to think it not prohibited." "Prohibited!
43nonsense! I certainly can get out that way, and I will. Mr. Rushworth will be here in a moment, you know; we shall not
44be out of sight." "Or if we are, Miss Price will be so good as to tell him that he will find us near that knoll: the
45grove of oak on the knoll." Fanny, feeling all this to be wrong, could not help making an effort to prevent it. "You
46will hurt yourself, Miss Bertram," she cried; "you will certainly hurt yourself against those spikes; you will tear your
47gown; you will be in danger of slipping into the ha-ha. You had better not go." Her cousin was safe on the other side
48while these words were spoken, and, smiling with all the good-humour of success, she said, "Thank you, my dear Fanny,
49but I and my gown are alive and well, and so good-bye." Fanny was again left to her solitude, and with no increase of
50pleasant feelings, for she was sorry for almost all that she had seen and heard, astonished at Miss Bertram, and angry
51with Mr. Crawford. By taking a circuitous, and, as it appeared to her, very unreasonable direction to the knoll, they
52were soon beyond her eye; and for some minutes longer she remained without sight or sound of any companion. She seemed
53to have the little wood all to herself. She could almost have thought that Edmund and Miss Crawford had left it, but
54that it was impossible for Edmund to forget her so entirely. She was again roused from disagreeable musings by sudden
55footsteps: somebody was coming at a quick pace down the principal walk. She expected Mr. Rushworth, but it was Julia,
56who, hot and out of breath, and with a look of disappointment, cried out on seeing her, "Heyday! Where are the others? I
57thought Maria and Mr. Crawford were with you." Fanny explained. "A pretty trick, upon my word! I cannot see them
58anywhere," looking eagerly into the park. "But they cannot be very far off, and I think I am equal to as much as Maria,
59even without help." "But, Julia, Mr. Rushworth will be here in a moment with the key. Do wait for Mr. Rushworth." "Not
60I, indeed. I have had enough of the family for one morning. Why, child, I have but this moment escaped from his horrible
61mother. Such a penance as I have been enduring, while you were sitting here so composed and so happy! It might have been
62as well, perhaps, if you had been in my place, but you always contrive to keep out of these scrapes." This was a most
63unjust reflection, but Fanny could allow for it, and let it pass: Julia was vexed, and her temper was hasty; but she
64felt that it would not last, and therefore, taking no notice, only asked her if she had not seen Mr. Rushworth. "Yes,
65yes, we saw him. He was posting away as if upon life and death, and could but just spare time to tell us his errand, and
66where you all were." "It is a pity he should have so much trouble for nothing." "That is Miss Maria's concern. I am not
67obliged to punish myself for her sins. The mother I could not avoid, as long as my tiresome aunt was dancing about with
68the housekeeper, but the son I can get away from."
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