? ? ? ? "You MUST drink tea with us to night," said he, "for we shall be quite alone--and tomorrow you must absolutely dine with us, for we shall be a large party."
? ? ? ? Mrs. Jennings enforced the necessity. "And who knows but you may raise a dance," said she. "And that will tempt YOU, Miss Marianne."
? ? ? ? "A dance!" cried Marianne. "Impossible! Who is to dance?"
? ? ? ? "Who! why yourselves, and the Careys, and Whitakers to be sure.--What! you thought nobody could dance because a certain person that shall be nameless is gone!"
? ? ? ? "I wish with all my soul," cried Sir John, "that Willoughby were among us again."
? ? ? ? This, and Marianne's blushing, gave new suspicions to Edward. "And who is Willoughby?" said he, in a low voice, to Miss Dashwood, by whom he was sitting.
? ? ? ? She gave him a brief reply.
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