Chapter 12
Mr. Knightley was to dine with them—rather against the
inclination of Mr. Woodhouse, who did not like that any one should
share with him in Isabella's first day. Emma's sense of right
however had decided it; and besides the consideration of what was
due to each brother, she had particular pleasure, from the
circumstance of the late disagreement between Mr. Knightley and
herself, in procuring him the proper invitation.
She hoped they might now become friends again. She thought it
was time to make up. Making-up indeed would not do. She certainly
had not been in the wrong, and he would never own that he had.
Concession must be out of the question; but it was time to appear
to forget that they had ever quarrelled; and she hoped it might
rather assist the restoration of
