CharlotteWhat can be the meaning of this?
Said Charlotte, as soon as he was gone.
CharlotteMy dear Eliza, he must be in love with you, or he would never have called on us in this familiar way.
But when Elizabeth told of his silence, it did not seem very likely, even to Charlotte’s wishes, to be the case;
And, after various conjectures, they could at last only suppose his visit to proceed from the difficulty of finding anything to do, which was the more probable from the time of year.
All field sports were over.
Within doors there was Lady Catherine, books, and a billiard table, but gentlemen cannot be always within doors;
And in the nearness of the Parsonage, or the pleasantness of the walk to it, or of the people who lived in it, the two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking thither almost every day.