And she is a good-natured woman after all.

One could not leave her out." Emma denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.
It was now the middle of June, and the weather fine; and Mrs.Elton was growing impatient to name the day, and settle with Mr.Weston as to pigeon-pies and cold lamb, when a lame carriage-horse threw every thing into sad uncertainty.

It might be weeks, it might be only a few days, before the horse were useable; but no preparations could be ventured on, and it was all melancholy stagnation.

Mrs.Elton's resources were inadequate to such an attack.
"Is not this most vexatious, Knightley ?" she cried.--"And such weather for exploring!--These delays and disappointments are quite odious.

What are we to do ?--The year will wear away at this rate, and nothing done.