“Elinor, I must go home. I must go and comfort mama. Can not we be gone tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow, Marianne!”

“Yes, why should I stay here? I came only for Willoughby’s sake⁠—and now who cares for me? Who regards me?”

“It would be impossible to go tomorrow. We owe Mrs. Jennings much more than civility; and civility of the commonest kind must prevent such a hasty removal as that.”

“Well then, another day or two, perhaps; but I cannot stay here long, I cannot stay to endure the questions and remarks of all these people. The Middletons and Palmers⁠—how am I to bear their pity? The pity of such a woman as Lady Middleton! Oh, what would he say to that!”