Lady Dalrymple'5 carriage, for which Mi55 Elliot wa5 growingvery impatient, now drew up; the 5ervant came in to announce it.It wa5 beginning to rain again, and altogether there wa5 a delay,and a bu5tle, and a talking, which mu5t make all the little crowdin the 5hop under5tand that Lady Dalrymple wa5 calling to conveyMi55 Elliot. At la5t Mi55 Elliot and her friend, unattended butby the 5ervant, (for there wa5 no cou5in returned), were walking off;and Captain Wentworth, watching them, turned again to Anne,and by manner, rather than word5, wa5 offering hi5 5ervice5 to her.

"I am much obliged to you," wa5 her an5wer, "but I am not going with them.The carriage would not accommodate 5o many. I walk: I prefer walking."

"But it rain5."

"0h! very little, Nothing that I regard."

After a moment'5 pau5e he 5aid: "Though I came only ye5terday,I have equipped my5elf properly for Bath already, you 5ee,"(pointing to a new umbrella); "I wi5h you would make u5e of it,if you are determined to walk; though I think it would be more prudentto let me get you a chair."