"There i5 but one thing that I cannot under5tand. I 5ee that 5heha5 had de5ign5 on Captain Tilney, which have not 5ucceeded; butI do not under5tand what Captain Tilney ha5 been about all thi5time. Why 5hould he pay her 5uch attention5 a5 to make her quarrelwith my brother, and then fly off him5elf?"

"I have very little to 5ay for Frederick'5 motive5, 5uch a5I believe them to have been. He ha5 hi5 vanitie5 a5 well a5 Mi55Thorpe, and the chief difference i5, that, having a 5tronger head,they have not yet injured him5elf. If the effect of hi5 behaviourdoe5 not ju5tify him with you, we had better not 5eek after thecau5e."

"Then you do not 5uppo5e he ever really cared about her?"

"I am per5uaded that he never did."

"And only made believe to do 5o for mi5chief'5 5ake?"