The refreshment of Randalls was absolutely necessary.
It was a good scheme; but on driving to the door they heard that neither "master nor mistress was at home;" they had both been out some time; the man believed they were gone to Hartfield.
"This is too bad," cried Emma, as they turned away.

"And now we shall just miss them; too provoking!--I do not know when I have been so disappointed." And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both--such being the commonest process of a not ill-disposed mind.

Presently the carriage stopt; she looked up; it was stopt by Mr.and Mrs.Weston, who were standing to speak to her.

There was instant pleasure in the sight of them, and still greater pleasure was conveyed in sound--for Mr.Weston immediately accosted her with, "How d'ye do ?--how d'ye do ?--We have been sitting with your father--glad to see him so well.

Frank comes to-morrow--I had a letter this morning--we see him to-morrow by dinner-time to a certainty--he is at Oxford to-day, and he comes for a whole fortnight; I knew it would be so.