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"Can you, indeed!"

"Yes I have explained it to myself in the most satisfactory way;--but you, Elinor, who love to doubt where you can--it will not satisfy YOU, I know; but you shall not talk ME out of my trust in it I aard for Marianne, disapproves of it, (perhaps because she has other views for hiet him away;--and that the business which she sends him off to transact is invented as an excuse to dismiss him

This is what I believe to have happened He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engageed, froive into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while You will tell me, I know, that this may or may NOT have happened; but I will listen to no cavil, unless you can point out any otherthe affair as satisfactory at this And now, Elinor, what have you to say?"

"Nothing, for you have anticipated ht or ht not have happened

Oh, Elinor, how incos! You had rather take evil upon credit than good You had rather look out for hby, than an apology for the latter You are resolved to think him blameable, because he took leave of us with less affection than his usual behaviour has shewn And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment? Are no probabilities to be accepted,due to the man e have all such reason to love, and no reason in the world to think ill of? To the possibility of h unavoidably secret for a while? And, after all, what is it you suspect hi unpleasant is the inevitable consequence of such an alteration as we just witnessed in hied of the allowances which ought to be hby may undoubtedly have very sufficient reasons for his conduct, and I will hope that he has

But it would have been e them at once Secrecyat its being practiced by him"