I have a very strong notion that it comes from him.

I am sure he was particularly silent when Mrs.Cole told us of it at dinner." "You take up an idea, Mrs.Weston, and run away with it; as you have many a time reproached me with doing.

I see no sign of attachment--I believe nothing of the pianoforte--and proof only shall convince me that Mr.Knightley has any thought of marrying Jane Fairfax." They combated the point some time longer in the same way; Emma rather gaining ground over the mind of her friend; for Mrs.Weston was the most used of the two to yield; till a little bustle in the room shewed them that tea was over, and the instrument in preparation;--and at the same moment Mr.Cole approaching to entreat Miss Woodhouse would do them the honour of trying it.

Frank Churchill, of whom, in the eagerness of her conversation with Mrs.Weston, she had been seeing nothing, except that he had found a seat by Miss Fairfax, followed Mr.Cole, to add his very pressing entreaties; and as, in every respect, it suited Emma best to lead, she gave a very proper compliance.
She knew the limitations of her own powers too well to attempt more than she could perform with credit; she wanted neither taste nor spirit in the little things which are generally acceptable, and could accompany her own voice well.

One accompaniment to her song took her agreeably by surprize--a second, slightly but correctly taken by Frank Churchill.