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Elinor fears that he no longer has feelings for her, but feels compelled, by a sense of duty, to protect her family from knowing her heartache. Marianne is distraught and abandons herself to her sorrow.Įdward Ferrars then pays a short visit to Barton Cottage but seems unhappy and out of sorts. Willoughby informs the Dashwoods that his aunt is sending him to London on business, indefinitely. Elinor cautions Marianne against her unguarded conduct, but Marianne refuses to check her behavior, believing such dissimilation to be a form of falsehood. Dashwood begin to suspect that the couple are secretly engaged. Willoughby's attentions are so overt that Elinor and Mrs.
Marianne quickly comes to admire his good looks and views on poetry, music, art and love. The dashing, handsome John Willoughby sees the accident and assists her. While out walking one day with Margaret, Marianne takes a fall and injures her ankle. Marianne is not pleased as she considers Colonel Brandon, at thirty-five, to be an old bachelor incapable of falling in love, or inspiring love in anyone else. It soon becomes apparent that Colonel Brandon is attracted to Marianne, and Mrs. Jennings and his friend, the grave, quiet and gentlemanly Colonel Brandon. Their new home lacks many of the conveniences that they have been used to however, they are warmly received by Sir John, and welcomed into the local society by him, his wife, Lady Middleton, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Dashwood moves her family to Barton Cottage in Devonshire, near the home of her cousin, Sir John Middleton. Dashwood indignantly speeds her search for a new home. Dashwood with the implication that Elinor is motivated by money rather than love. Fanny disapproves the match and offends Mrs. In the meantime, Fanny's brother, Edward Ferrars, a pleasant, unassuming, intelligent but reserved young man, visits Norland and soon forms an attachment to Elinor. Dashwood begins looking for somewhere else to live. John and Fanny immediately take up their place as the new owners of Norland, while the Dashwood women are reduced to the position of unwelcome guests.
Dashwood extracts a promise from his son, that he will take care of his half-sisters however, John's selfish wife Fanny, soon persuades him to renege.
Dashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret are left only a small income. When Henry Dashwood dies, his house, Norland Park, passes directly to his only son John, the child of his first wife.