Elinor’s office was a painful one. She was going to remove what she really believed to be her sister’s chief consolation⁠—to give such particulars of Edward as she feared would ruin him forever in her good opinion⁠—and to make Marianne, by a resemblance in their situations, which to her fancy would seem strong, feel all her own disappointment over again. But unwelcome as such a task must be, it was necessary to be done, and Elinor therefore hastened to perform it.