Chapter 26
Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs.
Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection,
and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short
had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were
they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections
against such a measure only a few days before! But these objections
had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her
mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in
spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could
not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the
whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how
blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state o
