Elton was wild to have the offer closed with immediately.⁠—On her side, all was warmth, energy, and triumph⁠—and she positively refused to take her friend’s negative, though Miss Fairfax continued to assure her that she would not at present engage in anything, repeating the same motives which she had been heard to urge before.⁠—Still Mrs. Elton insisted on being authorised to write an acquiescence by the morrow’s post.⁠—How Jane could bear it at all, was astonishing to Emma.⁠—She did look vexed, she did speak pointedly⁠—and at last, with a decision of action unusual to her, proposed a removal.⁠—“Should not they walk? Would not Mr. Knightley show them the gardens⁠—all the gardens?⁠—She wished to see the whole extent.”⁠—The pertinacity of her friend seemed more than she could bear.