To this Elinor had no answer to make, and did not
attempt any.
"Are you ill, Miss Dashwood?--you seem low--you
don't speak;--sure you an't well."
"I never was in better health."
"I am glad of it with all my heart; but really you did
not look it. I should be sorry to have YOU ill; you, that have
been the greatest comfort to me in the world!--Heaven
knows what I should have done without your friendship."--