14/31 You have hit upon the very thing to please me." Mr.Knightley had another reason for avoiding a table in the shade. He wished to persuade Mr.Woodhouse, as well as Emma, to join the party; and he knew that to have any of them sitting down out of doors to eat would inevitably make him ill. Mr.Woodhouse must not, under the specious pretence of a morning drive, and an hour or two spent at Donwell, be tempted away to his misery. No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity. |