The impossibility of her quitting her father, Mr.
Knightley felt as strongly as herself; but the inadmissibility of any other change, he could not agree to.

He had been thinking it over most deeply, most intently; he had at first hoped to induce Mr.Woodhouse to remove with her to Donwell; he had wanted to believe it feasible, but his knowledge of Mr.Woodhouse would not suffer him to deceive himself long; and now he confessed his persuasion, that such a transplantation would be a risk of her father's comfort, perhaps even of his life, which must not be hazarded.

Mr.Woodhouse taken from Hartfield!--No, he felt that it ought not to be attempted.

But the plan which had arisen on the sacrifice of this, he trusted his dearest Emma would not find in any respect objectionable; it was, that he should be received at Hartfield; that so long as her father's happiness in other words his life--required Hartfield to continue her home, it should be his likewise.
Of their all removing to Donwell, Emma had already had her own passing thoughts.

Like him, she had tried the scheme and rejected it; but such an alternative as this had not occurred to her.