Chapter 19
If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet,
a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured
of her attachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept
another man from unbiased inclination, it was not long that she had
to suffer from the recurrence of any such uncertainty. A very few
days brought the party from London, and she had no sooner an
opportunity of being one hour alone with Harriet, than she became
perfectly satisfied—unaccountable as it was!— that Robert Martin
had thoroughly supplanted Mr. Knightley, and was now forming all
her views of happiness.
Harriet was a little distressed—did look a little foolish at
first: but having once owned that she had been presumptuous and
silly, and self-deceived, before, her pain
