Very odd! very unaccountable! after the note I sent him this morning, and the message he returned, that he should certainly be at home till one." "Donwell!" cried his wife.--"My dear Mr.E., you have not been to Donwell!--You mean the Crown; you come from the meeting at the Crown." "No, no, that's to-morrow; and I particularly wanted to see Knightley to-day on that very account .-- Such a dreadful broiling morning!--I went over the fields too--( speaking in a tone of great ill-usage,) which made it so much the worse.

And then not to find him at home! I assure you I am not at all pleased.

And no apology left, no message for me.

The housekeeper declared she knew nothing of my being expected .-- Very extraordinary!--And nobody knew at all which way he was gone.

Perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to the Abbey Mill, perhaps into his woods .-- Miss Woodhouse, this is not like our friend Knightley!--Can you explain it ?" Emma amused herself by protesting that it was very extraordinary, indeed, and that she had not a syllable to say for him.
"I cannot imagine," said Mrs.Elton, (feeling the indignity as a wife ought to do,) "I cannot imagine how he could do such a thing by you, of all people in the world! The very last person whom one should expect to be forgotten!--My dear Mr.E., he must have left a message for you, I am sure he must .-- Not even Knightley could be so very eccentric;--and his servants forgot it.