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He rehts full of what he had seen; so full, that when the candles came to assist his observations, he must--yes, he certainly ive Emma some hint, ask her soer, without trying to preserve her It was his duty

"Pray, Ereat aiven to you and Miss Fairfax? I saw the word, and a to the one, and so very distressing to the other"

Eive hih her suspicions were by noever imparted them

"Oh!" she cried in evident e ourselves"

"The joke," he replied gravely, "seemed confined to you and Mr Churchill"

He had hoped she would speak again, but she did not She would rather busy herself about any thing than speak He sat a little while in doubt A variety of evils crossed his mind Interference--fruitless interference Eed intied Yet he would speak He owed it to her, to risk any thing that ht be involved in an unwelcome interference, rather than her welfare; to encounter any thing, rather than the relect in such a cause

"My dear Emma," said he at last, with earnest kindness, "do you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between the gentle of?"

"Between Mr Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax? Oh! yes, perfectly-Why do you make a doubt of it?"

"Have you never at any time had reason to think that he admired her, or that she aderness--"Never, for the twentieth part of a moment, did such an idea occur to me And how could it possibly coined that I saw symptoms of attachment between them--certain expressive looks, which I did not believe meant to be public"

"Oh! you ahted to find that you can vouchsafe to let your iination wander--but it will not do--very sorry to check you in your first essay--but indeed it will not do