? ? ? ? "Engagement!" cried Marianne, "there has been no engagement."
? ? ? ? "No engagement!"
? ? ? ? "No, he is not so unworthy as you believe him. He has broken no faith with me."
? ? ? ? "But he told you that he loved you."
? ? ? ? "Yes--no--never absolutely. It was every day implied, but never professedly declared. Sometimes I thought it had been--but it never was."
? ? ? ? "Yet you wrote to him?"--
? ? ? ? "Yes--could that be wrong after all that had passed?-- But I cannot talk."
? ? ? ? Elinor said no more, and turning again to the three letters which now raised a much stronger curiosity than before, directly ran over the contents of all. The first, which was what her sister had sent him on their arrival in town, was to this effect.
Berkeley Street, January.
? ? ? ? "How surprised you will be, Willoughby, on receiving this; and I think you will feel something more than surprise, when you know that I am in town.
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