"On this point we have been wretched.

It was our darling wish that you might be attached to each other--and we were persuaded that it was so .-- Imagine what we have been feeling on your account." "I have escaped; and that I should escape, may be a matter of grateful wonder to you and myself.

But this does not acquit _him_, Mrs.Weston; and I must say, that I think him greatly to blame.

What right had he to come among us with affection and faith engaged, and with manners so _very_ disengaged?
What right had he to endeavour to please, as he certainly did--to distinguish any one young woman with persevering attention, as he certainly did--while he really belonged to another ?--How could he tell what mischief he might be doing ?--How could he tell that he might not be making me in love with him ?--very wrong, very wrong indeed." "From something that he said, my dear Emma, I rather imagine--" "And how could _she_ bear such behaviour! Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it .-- That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither comprehend nor respect." "There were misunderstandings between them, Emma; he said so expressly.
He had not time to enter into much explanation.

He was here only a quarter of an hour, and in a state of agitation which did not allow the full use even of the time he could stay--but that there had been misunderstandings he decidedly said.