? ? ? ? "Why should you imagine, Elinor, that we did not go there, or that we did not see the house? Is not it what you have often wished to do yourself?"
? ? ? ? "Yes, Marianne, but I would not go while Mrs. Smith was there, and with no other companion than Mr. Willoughby."
? ? ? ? "Mr. Willoughby however is the only person who can have a right to shew that house; and as he went in an open carriage, it was impossible to have any other companion. I never spent a pleasanter morning in my life."
? ? ? ? "I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
? ? ? ? "On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at the time, for we always know when we are acting wrong, and with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure."
? ? ? ? "But, my dear Marianne, as it has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks, do you not now begin to doubt the discretion of your own conduct?"
? ? ? ? "If the impertinent remarks of Mrs.
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