Austen Said:

no one ought to be judged or to be known by such testimonies,

no private correspondence could bear the eye of others,

no flagrant open crime could have been worse.

It was just possible that she might have been persuaded by Lady Russell! And under such a supposition, which would have been most miserable, when time had disclosed all, too late?

There was no longer anything of tenderness due to him. He stood as opposed to Captain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil of his attentions last night, the irremediable mischief he might have done,

Pity for him was all over.

here was a reward indeed springing from it!

But this was a vain idea. She must talk to Lady Russell, tell her, consult with her, and having done her best, wait the event with as much composure as possible;

he had called and paid them a long morning visit;

he was coming again in the evening.

the good acting of the friend, in being able to shew such pleasure as she did, in the expectation and in the actual arrival of the very person whose presence must really be interfering with her prime object. It was impossible but that Mrs Clay must hate the sight of Mr Elliot; and yet she could assume a most obliging, placid look, and appear quite satisfied with the curtailed license of devoting herself only half as much to Sir Walter as she would have done otherwise.

It was bad enough that a Mrs Clay should be always before her; but that a deeper hypocrite should be added to their party, seemed the destruction of everything like peace and comfort.

It was evident that the report concerning her had spread, and a short pause succeeded, which seemed to ensure that it would now spread farther.

to lose no time, lest somebody else should come in.

being perfectly ready,

The comfort, the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over, hushed into cold composure, determined silence, or insipid talk, to meet the heartless elegance of her father and sister.

whether Captain Wentworth would come or not?

she had been seen with Mr Elliot three hours after his being supposed to be out of Bath,

the consciousness of having, by some complication of mutual trick, or some overbearing authority of his, been obliged to attend (perhaps for half an hour) to his lectures and restrictions on her designs on Sir Walter.

the gentlemen might each be too much self-occupied to hear.

While supposed to be writing only to Captain Benwick, he had been also addressing her! On the contents of that letter depended all which this world could do for her.

This was dreadful.

Would they only have gone away, and left her in the quiet possession of that room it would have been her cure; but to have them all standing or waiting around her was distracting,

she would go home.

Worse than all!

It could not be very lasting, however. Even if he did not come to Camden Place himself, it would be in her power to send an intelligible sentence by Captain Harville.

she should like it,

not bear it;

“strange.”

he indulged himself a little too much with the foibles of others.

her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy with a young man of his own college, of the name of Thorpe;

he had spent the last week of the Christmas vacation with his family, near London.

of their wish of being better acquainted with her; of being considered as already friends, through the friendship of their brothers, etc.,

He must be gone from Bath. Yet he had not mentioned that his stay would be so short!

he must be a charming young man, and was equally sure that he must have been delighted with her dear Catherine, and would therefore shortly return.

she need not be longer uneasy, as the gentlemen had just left the pump-room.

John thought her the most charming girl in the world,

nothing,

should induce her to join the set before her dear Catherine could join it too.

how well the other liked Bath, how much she admired its buildings and surrounding country, whether she drew, or played, or sang, and whether she was fond of riding on horseback.

to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one;

seeing Miss Tilney again could at that moment bear a short delay in favour of a drive,

there could be no impropriety in her going with Mr. Thorpe, as Isabella was going at the same time with James,

he must know the carriage to be in fact perfectly safe,

It was inconceivable, incredible, impossible!

no two hours and a half had ever gone off so swiftly before,

It was ages since she had had a moment’s conversation with her dearest Catherine; and, though she had such thousands of things to say to her, it appeared as if they were never to be together again;

her folly, in supposing that among such a crowd they should even meet with the Tilneys in any reasonable time,

To escape,

so narrowly escape John Thorpe, and to be asked, so immediately on his joining her, asked by Mr. Tilney, as if he had sought her on purpose! — it did not appear to her that life could supply any greater felicity.