"A knock at the door! and so late! It was ten o'clock. Could it be Mr Elliot? They knew he was to dine in Lansdown Crescent. It was possible that he might stop in his way home to ask them how they did. They could think of no one else.
- Novel: Persuasion
- Character: Speaking together Sir Walter Elliot, Miss Elizabeth Elliot and Mrs Penelope Clay
- Link to text in chapter 15
- Text ID: 01633