Chapter 16
It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous
as herself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse was painful enough
by letter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet!
Harriet expressed herself very much as might be supposed,
without reproaches, or apparent sense of ill-usage; and yet Emma
fancied there was a something of resentment, a something bordering
on it in her style, which increased the desirableness of their
being separate.— It might be only her own consciousness; but it
seemed as if an angel only could have been quite without resentment
under such a stroke.
She had no difficulty in procuring Isabella's invitation; and
she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for asking it,
without resorting to invention.—There was a tooth amiss.
