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"But what can your brother ement, what can he mean by his behaviour?"

"You are a very close questioner"

"Am I? I only ask what I want to be told"

"But do you only ask what I can be expected to tell?"

"Yes, I think so; for you must know your brother's heart"

"My brother's heart, as you teruess at"

"Well?"

"Well! Nay, if it is to be guesswork, let us all guess for ourselves

To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful The premises are before you My brother is a lively and perhaps so man; he has had about a week's acquaintance with your friend, and he has known her engage as he has known her"

"Well," said Catherine, after souess at your brother's intentions from all this; but I am sure I cannot But is not your father uncoo away? Sure, if your father were to speak to hio"

"My dear Miss Morland," said Henry, "in this amiable solicitude for your brother's comfort, may you not be a little mistaken? Are you not carried a little too far? Would he thank you, either on his own account or Miss Thorpe's, for supposing that her affection, or at least her good behaviour, is only to be secured by her seeing nothing of Captain Tilney? Is he safe only in solitude? Or is her heart constant to him only when unsolicited by anyone else?

He cannot think this--and you may be sure that he would not have you think it I will not say, 'Do not be uneasy,' because I know that you are so, at this moment; but be as little uneasy as you can You have no doubt of the mutual attachment of your brother and your friend; depend upon it, therefore, that real jealousy never can exist between thereement between them can be of any duration Their hearts are open to each other, as neither heart can be to you; they know exactly what is required and what can be borne; and you may be certain that one will never tease the other beyond what is known to be pleasant"

Perceiving her still to look doubtful and grave, he added, "Though Frederick does not leave Bath with us, he will probably remain but a very short time, perhaps only a few days behind us His leave of absence will soon expire, and he iment