She used to be pliability itself, but she was now inflexibly passive in her resignation⁠—I might almost say in her despair. Dearly as I love her, I should have been less pained if she had been violently agitated⁠—it was so shockingly unlike her natural character to see her as cold and insensible as I saw her now.

11th .⁠—Sir Percival had an interview with Mr. Fairlie, and I was sent for to join them.