The very easy manner in which he then told her that he had kept her waiting did not by any means reconcile her more to her lot; nor did the particulars which he entered into while they were standing up, of the horses and dogs of the friend whom he had just left, and of a proposed exchange of terriers between them, interest her so much as to prevent her looking very often towards that part of the room where she had left Mr.Tilney.Of her dear Isabella, to whom she particularly longed to point out that gentleman, she could see nothing.
They were in different sets.

She was separated from all her party, and away from all her acquaintance; one mortification succeeded another, and from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

From such a moralizing strain as this, she was suddenly roused by a touch on the shoulder, and turning round, perceived Mrs.Hughes directly behind her, attended by Miss Tilney and a gentleman.

"I beg your pardon, Miss Morland," said she, "for this liberty--but I cannot anyhow get to Miss Thorpe, and Mrs.Thorpe said she was sure you would not have the least objection to letting in this young lady by you." Mrs.Hughes could not have applied to any creature in the room more happy to oblige her than Catherine.

The young ladies were introduced to each other, Miss Tilney expressing a proper sense of such goodness, Miss Morland with the real delicacy of a generous mind making light of the obligation; and Mrs.Hughes, satisfied with having so respectably settled her young charge, returned to her party.
Miss Tilney had a good figure, a pretty face, and a very agreeable countenance; and her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness of Miss Thorpe's, had more real elegance.