“Between Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax? Oh! yes, perfectly.⁠—Why do you make a doubt of it?”

“Have you never at any time had reason to think that he admired her, or that she admired him?”

“Never, never!” she cried with a most open eagerness⁠—“Never, for the twentieth part of a moment, did such an idea occur to me. And how could it possibly come into your head?”

“I have lately imagined that I saw symptoms of attachment between them⁠—certain expressive looks, which I did not believe meant to be public.”