He did not speak, he did not behave like himself.

YOU must have seen the difference as well as I.

What can it be?
Can they have quarrelled?
Why else should he have shewn such unwillingness to accept your invitation here ?"-- "It was not inclination that he wanted, Elinor; I could plainly see THAT.

He had not the power of accepting it.

I have thought it all over I assure you, and I can perfectly account for every thing that at first seemed strange to me as well as to you." "Can you, indeed!" "Yes.