“Who can this be?” cried Elinor. “So early too! I thought we had been safe.”

Marianne moved to the window.

“It is Colonel Brandon!” said she, with vexation. “We are never safe from him .”

“He will not come in, as Mrs. Jennings is from home.”

“I will not trust to that ,” retreating to her own room. “A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.”