Chapter 57Mr. Hill was supposed to dine with them – rather against the inclination of Mr. Lodge, who did not like that someone should share Bella's first day with him. Emma's sense of justice, however, had decided; and aside from considering what each brother is entitled to, due to the late disagreements between Mr. Hill and her special pleasure in giving him the right invitation.
She hoped that maybe now they would become friends again. She thought it was time to reconcile. Makeup would indeed not be enough. She certainly hadn't been wrong, and he would never admit that he had done it. Concessions must be out of the question; but it was time to forget that they had ever quarreled; and she hoped that it would be more conducive to the restoration of friendship that she had one of the child
