Chapter 3
Emma could not forgive her;—but as neither provocation nor
resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the
party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on
each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield
again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole;
not so openly as he might have done had her father been out of the
room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma. He
had been used to think her unjust to Jane, and had now great
pleasure in marking an improvement.
"A very pleasant evening," he began, as soon as Mr. Woodhouse
had been talked into what was necessary, told that he understood,
and the papers swept away;—"particularly pleasant. You and Miss
Fairfax gave us some very go
