She was answered in the negative.

"Are you quite sure of it ?" she replied.

"Are you certain that no servant, no porter has left any letter or note ?" The man replied that none had.
"How very odd!" said she, in a low and disappointed voice, as she turned away to the window.
"How odd, indeed!" repeated Elinor within herself, regarding her sister with uneasiness.

"If she had not known him to be in town she would not have written to him, as she did; she would have written to Combe Magna; and if he is in town, how odd that he should neither come nor write! Oh! my dear mother, you must be wrong in permitting an engagement between a daughter so young, a man so little known, to be carried on in so doubtful, so mysterious a manner! I long to inquire; and how will MY interference be borne." She determined, after some consideration, that if appearances continued many days longer as unpleasant as they now were, she would represent in the strongest manner to her mother the necessity of some serious enquiry into the affair.
Mrs.Palmer and two elderly ladies of Mrs.Jennings's intimate acquaintance, whom she had met and invited in the morning, dined with them.

The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others.