This, and Marianne’s blushing, gave new suspicions to Edward. “And who is Willoughby?” said he, in a low voice, to Miss Dashwood, by whom he was sitting.

   She gave him a brief reply. Marianne’s countenance was more communicative. Edward saw enough to comprehend not only the meaning of others, but such of Marianne’s expressions as had puzzled him before; and when their visitors left them, he went immediately round to her and said, in a whisper, “I have been guessing. Shall I tell you my guess?”

   ”What do you mean?”

   ”Shall I tell you?”

   ”Certainly.”

   ”Well, then, I guess that Mr. Willoughby hunts.”

-Sense and Sensibility

11/12/11 at 12:24pm