The regular and best families Emma could hardly suppose they would presume to invite--neither Donwell, nor Hartfield, nor Randalls.

Nothing should tempt _her_ to go, if they did; and she regretted that her father's known habits would be giving her refusal less meaning than she could wish.

The Coles were very respectable in their way, but they ought to be taught that it was not for them to arrange the terms on which the superior families would visit them.

This lesson, she very much feared, they would receive only from herself; she had little hope of Mr.Knightley, none of Mr.Weston.
But she had made up her mind how to meet this presumption so many weeks before it appeared, that when the insult came at last, it found her very differently affected.

Donwell and Randalls had received their invitation, and none had come for her father and herself; and Mrs.
Weston's accounting for it with "I suppose they will not take the liberty with you; they know you do not dine out," was not quite sufficient.