consider, mamma! we have nowhere to go.
i shall start making inquiries for a new house at once. until then we must try to bear their coming.
marianne, cannot you play something else? mamma has been weeping since breakfast.
i meant something less mournful, dearest.
margaret, are you there? please come down. john and fanny will be here soon.
because houses go from father to son, dearest not from father to daughter. it is the law.
if you come inside, we could play with your atlas.
as you know, we are looking for a new home. when we leave we shall be able to retain only thomas and betsy.
we are very sorry to have to leave you all. but we are certain you will find the new mrs dashwood a fair and generous mistress.
how is mrs ferrars?
you have two brothers, have you not?
betsy has it, i think. what does fanny want with the silver?
presents for the servants. have you seen margaret? i am worried about her. she has taken to hiding in the oddest places.
you do your best. you have not said a word to her for a week.
pray, when may we expect the pleasure of your brother's company?
there is but one consolation if edward is anything like fanny, we shall be only too happy to leave.
too expensive. we do not need four bedrooms, we can share.
marianne, we have only five hundred pounds a year. i will send out more inquiries today.
won't you come out, dearest? we haven't seen you all day. mamma is very concerned.
i believe so.
oh! no, no indeed. she is quite wrong. for i believe it is in--in belgium.
of course. the volga, which, as you know, starts in.
st albans.
that was my father's favourite.
thank you so much for your help with margaret, mr ferrars. she is a changed girl since your arrival.
has she shown you her tree-house?
with pleasure.
margaret has always wanted to travel.
what will your duties be?
ah.
as?
and what do you wish for?
would you stay in london?
you talk of feeling idle and useless imagine how that is compounded when one has no choice and no hope whatsoever of any occupation.
except that you will inherit your fortune.
we cannot even earn ours.
right?
it was you who asked him to read and then you made him nervous.
but your behaviour to him in all other respects is perfectly cordial so i must assume that you like him in spite of his deficiencies.
praise indeed!
do without me?
marianne, there is no question of that is, there is no under standing between.
i do not attempt to deny that i think very highly of him that i greatly esteem that i like him.
very well. forgive me. believe my feelings to be stronger than i have declared but further than that you must not believe.
go to bed!
we cannot possibly afford him.
your education?
indeed?
plymouth?
no.
pratt?
let us only settle in for a few days, sir john, and thank you--
indeed. i am surprised they did not offer us their clothing.
no more sugar then.
oh no, sir john, i do not--
how long have you known the colonel?
on what grounds?
what became of the lady?
oh no, please, dear mrs jennings, leave the poor colonel alone.
mrs jennings is a wealthy woman with a married daughter--she has nothing to do but marry off everyone else's.
infirmity!
it is a miracle your life has extended this far.
a slight ache' i believe was his phrase.
we are not engaged, mamma.
i am by no means assured of his regard for me.
but even were he to feel such a.  preference, i think we should be foolish to assume that there would not be many obstacles to his choosing a woman of no rank who cannot afford to buy sugar.
in such a situation, mamma, it is perhaps better to use one's head.
which invariably means it will.
in here, sir--this way. margaret, open the door wider. please, sir, lay her here. marianne, are you in pain?
is he human?
she feels no pain, mamma. margaret, ask betsy to make up a cold compress, please.
and economy--ten words at most.
you must change, marianne--you will catch a cold.
you will care very much when your nose swells up.
we have decided to give you to the gypsies.
marianne! sir john and the colonel are leaving.
i will put these in water.
good work, marianne! you have covered all forms of poetry; another meeting will ascertain his views on nature and romantic attachments and then you will have nothing left to talk about and the acquaintanceship will be over.
no, but mr willoughby can be in no doubt of your enthusiasm for him.
no particular reason, marianne, only that we know so little of him--
or seven hours in this case.
i know. do not trouble yourself, marianne.
there is nothing under tenpence a pound. we have to economise.
no. just not to eat beef.
but as it has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks, do you not begin to doubt your own discretion?
good morning, colonel!
thank you, colonel, we shall be delighted.
yes. marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. in fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.
rather too unspoilt, in my view. the sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
i would be delighted. but sir john and mrs jennings are too excessive in their compliments. i am sure to disappoint.
nonsense.
really, willoughby!
why should you dislike him?
with dark, narrow stairs, a poky hall and a fire that smokes?
or the money.
shhh!
meg, dearest, please ask betsy to make a cup of hot tea for marianne.
they must have quarreled.
then why did he not say as much? it is not like willoughby to be secretive. did he think marianne was richer than she is?
i can hardly tell you. but why was his manner so guilty?
no, he loves her, i am sure.
but has he left her with any assurance of his return? cannot you ask her if he has proposed?
there was something so underhand in the manner of his leaving.
not resolved--
mamma, i am very fond of willoughby--
our discussion?
i cannot imagine so.
my dear miss steele--
you have my permission to ask any manner of question, if that is of any help.
with fanny's mother? no, i have never met her.
i had no idea at all that you were connected with that family.
what do you mean? do you have an understanding with fanny's brother robert?
edward?
edward ferrars?
i am sorry, but we surely--we cannot mean the same mr ferrars?
mr pratt! yes, i believe he has.
perfectly well, thank you.
on the contrary.
i give you my word.
mrs jennings, you are very kind, but we cannot possibly leave our mother.
with you in the room?
nothing of significance.
i should imagine not.
you are fortunate, over such a lengthy engagement, never to have had any doubts on that score.
indeed miss steele, i know of no such plan.
john and fanny are in town. i think we shall be forced to see them.
i think it was for next door.
colonel brandon, what a pleasure to see you! have you been in london all this while?
very well, thank you.
colonel, is there anything--
colonel, though neither one has informed me of their under standing, i have no doubt of their mutual affection.
what do you mean?
no, for i do not expect any, mrs jennings. i have very little acquaintance in town.
marianne, is anything wrong?
we do.
yes.
i am well, thank you, mr willoughby.
we are all extremely well, mr willoughby--thank you for your kind inquiry.
marianne! come away!
dearest, do not betray what you feel to everyone present! this is not the place for explanations--
marianne, please tell me--
you have no confidence in me.
i have nothing to tell.
it is perhaps fortunate that none of them knows of your engagement. excuse me.
oh, marianne.
marianne, oh, marianne--it is better to know at once what his intentions are. dearest, think of what you would have felt if your engagement had carried on for months and months before he chose to put an end to it.
but you wrote to him! i thought then that he must have left you with some kind of understanding?
not so unworthy! did he tell you that he loved you?
he has broken faith with all of us, he made us all believe he loved you.
i cannot tell you.
marianne, there is no excuse for him-- this is his hand--
there is no one to take us.
we have no money--and indeed we owe mrs jennings more courtesy.
i will find a way. i promise.
thank you for coming, colonel.
i must get her home as quickly as possible. the palmers can take us as far as cleveland, which is but a day from barton--
i confess that is precisely what i had hoped for. marianne suffers cruelly, and what pains me most is how hard she tries to justify mr willoughby. but you know her disposition.
you have something to tell me of mr willoughby.
disappeared!
good god. do you mean--willoughby?
yes! he left us that morning, without any explanation!
--and so abandoned marianne for miss grey and her fifty thousand pounds.
have you seen mr willoughby since you learned?
is beth still in town?
dearest, was i right to tell you?
whatever his past actions, whatever his present course, at least you may be certain that he loved you.
i hope you are enjoying your stay with john and fanny, miss steele?
no, i cannot.
indeed?
do ask him to come up.
mr ferrars, what a pleasure to see you. you.  know miss steele, of course.
do sit down, mr ferrars.
let me call marianne, mr ferrars. she would be most disappointed to miss you.
he must have had his reasons for going.
since the evening mrs jennings offered to take us to london.
lucy told me in the strictest confidence.
i could not break my word.
he made me no promises. he tried to tell me about lucy.
would you have him treat her even worse than willoughby has treated you?
edward made his promise a long time ago, long before he met me. though he may.  harbour some regret, i believe he will be happy--in the knowledge that he did his duty and kept his word. after all--after all that is bewitching in the idea of one's happiness depending entirely on one person, it is not always possible. we must accept. edward will marry lucy--and you and i will go home.
what do you know of my heart? what do you know of anything but your own suffering? for weeks, marianne, i have had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. it was forced upon me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hopes. i have had to endure her exultation again and again while knowing myself to be divided from edward forever. believe me, marianne, had i not been bound to silence i could have produced proof enough of a broken heart even for you.
it is indeed so. are you acquainted with mr ferrars?
colonel, i am sure he would be only too delighted to hear it from your own lips.
mr ferrars.
thank you for responding so promptly to my message.
mr ferrars--
mr ferrars, i have good news. i think you know of our friend colonel brandon?
colonel brandon desires me to say that, understanding you wish to join the clergy, he has great pleasure in offering you the parish on his estate at delaford, now just vacant, in the hope that it may enable you--and miss steele--to marry.
yes. he means it as testimony of his concern for--for the cruel situation in which you find yourselves.
the unkindness of your family has made you astonished to find friendship elsewhere.
you are very much mistaken. i assure you that you owe it almost entirely to your own merit--i have had no hand in it.
he is the kindest and best of men.
i think he felt it would be better coming from.  a friend.
you will always have it.
mr ferrars, you honour your promises-- that is more important than anything else. i wish you--both--very happy.
i do not think she drew breath from the moment we left london. it is my fault--i should have found some other way of getting home.
we shall be home soon enough. mamma will comfort you, dearest.
i think it is going to rain.
you always say that and then it always does.
she is taking a little air in the garden.
i cannot see marianne.
i think marianne may need a doctor.
mr palmer, that is very kind. but colonel brandon and dr harris will look after us. thank you for everything you have done.
colonel, you have done so much already.
she would be easier if her mother were here.
there is no one there, dearest.
marianne, marianne, please try--
marianne, please try--i cannot--i cannot do without you. oh, please, i have tried to bear everything else-- i will try--but please, dearest, beloved marianne, do not leave me alone.
my mother!
mamma! she is out of danger!
i am here, dearest, i am here.
poor willoughby. he will always regret you.
do you compare your conduct with his?
our situations were very different.
did--
no, mamma.
i am very good at hiding.
mamma?
there is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
i do not think it is the colonel.
then you--are not married.
your mother, i suppose, will hardly be less angry with robert for marrying lucy.
--no doubt because she had run out of sons to disinherit.
me and colonel brandon!