Fanny has a great desire to see Sotherton.

I know she wishes it very much.

She has not often a gratification of the kind, and I am sure, ma'am, you would be glad to give her the pleasure now ?" "Oh yes! very glad, if your aunt sees no objection." Mrs.Norris was very ready with the only objection which could remain--their having positively assured Mrs.Rushworth that Fanny could not go, and the very strange appearance there would consequently be in taking her, which seemed to her a difficulty quite impossible to be got over.

It must have the strangest appearance! It would be something so very unceremonious, so bordering on disrespect for Mrs.Rushworth, whose own manners were such a pattern of good-breeding and attention, that she really did not feel equal to it.

Mrs.Norris had no affection for Fanny, and no wish of procuring her pleasure at any time; but her opposition to Edmund _now_, arose more from partiality for her own scheme, because it _was_ her own, than from anything else.