“Too quiet for you, I believe.”

“I should have thought so theoretically myself, but,” and her eyes brightened as she spoke, “take it all and all, I never spent so happy a summer. But then,” with a more thoughtful air and lowered voice, “there is no saying what it may lead to.”

Fanny's heart beat quick, and she felt quite unequal to surmising or soliciting anything more. Miss Crawford, however, with renewed animation, soon went on —

“I am conscious of being far better reconciled to a country residence than I had ever expected to be.

I can even suppose it pleasant to spend half the year in the country, under certain circumstances, very pleasant.