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"Have you indeed no idea?" said Mrs Weston in a tre voice

"Cannot you, uess as to what you are to hear?"

"So far as that it relates to Mr Frank Churchill, I do guess"

"You are right It does relate to hi her work, and see up) "He has been here this very , on a most extraordinary errand It is impossible to express our surprize He came to speak to his father on a subject,--to announce an attachht first of herself, and then of Harriet

"More than an attacheement--What will you say, Emma--ill any body say, when it is known that Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax are engaged;--nay, that they have been long engaged!"

Emma even jumped with surprize;--and, horror-struck, exclaimed, "Jane Fairfax!--Good God! You are not serious? You do not mean it?"

"Youher eyes, and talking on with eagerness, that Eht have time to recover-- "You may well be aement between them ever since October--formed at Weymouth, and kept a secret fro it but themselves--neither the Campbells, nor her fah perfectly convinced of the fact, it is yet alht I knew him"

Emma scarcely heard as said--Her mind was divided between two ideas--her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet;--and for some time she could only exclaim, and require confirmation, repeated confir to recover herself; "this is a circumstance which I must think of at least half a day, before I can at all coed to her all the winter--before either of theed--It has hurt me, Emma, very much It has hurt his father equally Some part of his conduct we cannot excuse"

Emma pondered a moment, and then replied, "I will not pretend not to understand you; and to give you all the relief in my power, be assured that no such effect has followed his attentions to me, as you are apprehensive of"