? ? ? ? "Who can this be?" cried Elinor. "So early too! I thought we HAD been safe."
? ? ? ? Marianne moved to the window--
? ? ? ? "It is Colonel Brandon!" said she, with vexation. "We are never safe from HIM."
? ? ? ? "He will not come in, as Mrs. Jennings is from home."
? ? ? ? "I will not trust to THAT," retreating to her own room. "A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others."
? ? ? ? The event proved her conjecture right, though it was founded on injustice and error; for Colonel Brandon DID come in; and Elinor, who was convinced that solicitude for Marianne brought him thither, and who saw THAT solicitude in his disturbed and melancholy look, and in his anxious though brief inquiry after her, could not forgive her sister for esteeming him so lightly.
? ? ? ? "I met Mrs. Jennings in Bond Street," said he, after the first salutation, "and she encouraged me to come on; and I was the more easily encouraged, because I thought it probable that I might find you alone, which I was very desirous of doing.
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