Chapter 36
Within a few days after this meeting, the newspapers announced
to the world, that the lady of Thomas Palmer, Esq. was safely
delivered of a son and heir; a very interesting and satisfactory
paragraph, at least to all those intimate connections who knew it
before.
This event, highly important to Mrs. Jennings's happiness,
produced a temporary alteration in the disposal of her time, and
influenced, in a like degree, the engagements of her young friends;
for as she wished to be as much as possible with Charlotte, she
went thither every morning as soon as she was dressed, and did not
return till late in the evening; and the Miss Dashwoods, at the
particular request of the Middletons, spent the whole of every day,
in every day in Conduit Street. For their own comfort the
