Chapter 15
Mr. Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drank
his tea he was quite ready to go home; and it was as much as his
three companions could do, to entertain away his notice of the
lateness of the hour, before the other gentlemen appeared. Mr.
Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations
of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an
augmentation. Mr. Elton, in very good spirits, was one of the first
to walk in. Mrs. Weston and Emma were sitting together on a sofa.
He joined them immediately, and, with scarcely an invitation,
seated himself between them.
Emma, in good spirits too, from the amusement afforded her mind
by the expectation of Mr. Frank Churchill, was willing to forget
his late improprieties, and be as we
