I declare positively it is quite shocking.

I tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself, but you and John must keep us in countenance.

Make haste, my dear creature, and come to us.

John is just walked off, but he will be back in a moment." Catherine had neither time nor inclination to answer.

The others walked away, John Thorpe was still in view, and she gave herself up for lost.
That she might not appear, however, to observe or expect him, she kept her eyes intently fixed on her fan; and a self-condemnation for her folly, in supposing that among such a crowd they should even meet with the Tilneys in any reasonable time, had just passed through her mind, when she suddenly found herself addressed and again solicited to dance, by Mr.Tilney himself.