It was censure in common use, and easily given.
Their presence was a restraint both on her and on Lucy.

It checked the idleness of one, and the business of the other.

Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering.

Miss Steele was the least discomposed of the three, by their presence; and it was in their power to reconcile her to it entirely.

Would either of them only have given her a full and minute account of the whole affair between Marianne and Mr.Willoughby, she would have thought herself amply rewarded for the sacrifice of the best place by the fire after dinner, which their arrival occasioned.
But this conciliation was not granted; for though she often threw out expressions of pity for her sister to Elinor, and more than once dropt a reflection on the inconstancy of beaux before Marianne, no effect was produced, but a look of indifference from the former, or of disgust in the latter.