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With a mind thus full of happiness, Catherine was hardly aware that two or three days had passed aithout her seeing Isabella for an first to be sensible of this, and to sigh for her conversation, as she walked along the pu to say or to hear; and scarcely had she felt a fiveof friendship, before the object of it appeared, and inviting her to a secret conference, led the way to a seat "This is my favourite place," said she as they sat down on a bench between the doors, which co at either; "it is so out of the way"

Catherine, observing that Isabella's eyes were continually bent towards one door or the other, as in eager expectation, and re arch, thought the present a fine opportunity for being really so; and therefore gaily said, "Do not be uneasy, Isabella, James will soon be here"

"Psha! My dear creature," she replied, "do not thinkto confine hiether; we should be the jest of the place And so you are going to Northanger! I alad of it It is one of the finest old places in England, I understand I shall depend upon a most particular description of it"

"You shall certainly have the best infor? Are your sisters co for anybody One's eyes must be so ly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world Tilney says it is always the case with ht, Isabella, you had so in particular to tell me?"

"Oh! Yes, and so I have But here is a proof of what I was saying

My poor head, I had quite forgot it Well, the thing is this: I have just had a letter frouess the contents"

"No, indeed, I cannot"

"My sweet love, do not be so abominably affected What can he write about, but yourself? You know he is over head and ears in love with you"