Her influence would have been enough.

And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them .-- She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds.

Common sense would have directed her to tell Harriet, that she must not allow herself to think of him, and that there were five hundred chances to one against his ever caring for her.--"But, with common sense," she added, "I am afraid I have had little to do." She was extremely angry with herself.

If she could not have been angry with Frank Churchill too, it would have been dreadful .-- As for Jane Fairfax, she might at least relieve her feelings from any present solicitude on her account.

Harriet would be anxiety enough; she need no longer be unhappy about Jane, whose troubles and whose ill-health having, of course, the same origin, must be equally under cure .-- Her days of insignificance and evil were over .-- She would soon be well, and happy, and prosperous .-- Emma could now imagine why her own attentions had been slighted.