Mrs. Dashwood was too much astonished to speak, and another pause succeeded.
"Is anything the matter with her?" cried Mrs. Dashwood as she entered--"is she ill?"
Mrs. Dashwood felt too much for speech, and instantly quitted the parlour to give way in solitude to the concern and alarm which this sudden departure occasioned.
On their return from the park they found Willoughby's curricle and servant in waiting at the cottage, and Mrs. Dashwood was convinced that her conjecture had been just.