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Line 2: == Did Colonel Brandon and Willoughby actually fight or something when they met in London for the first time after Brandon learned what he'd done to Eliza? == In Chapter 31, Brandon tells Elinor of how his ward Eliza (the daughter of his doomed sweetheart Eliza) disappeared and how he discovered upon finding her that she'd been seduced and abandoned by Willoughby (along with his child). When Elinor asks if he has seen Willoughby since this discovery, he replies yes, and this follows: {{quote\| Elinor, startled by his manner, looked at him anxiously, saying,}} {{quote\| "What? have you met him to--"}} {{quote\| "I could meet him no other way. Eliza had confessed to me, though most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to town, which was within a fortnight after myself, '''we met by appointment''', he to defend, I to punish his conduct. We returned unwounded, and the meeting, therefore, never got abroad."}} {{quote\| Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it.}} A footnote in my edition translates "met by appointment" as "Met to fight a duel." Is Brandon, as a soldier, being figurative, or did he really beat Willoughby up for what he did to Eliza? Three cheers for him if he did, of course, don't get me wrong, but it's just the last thing I'd expect in a Jane Austen novel. Line 18: * After Edward moved into Norland with the John Dashwoods for a few months after Elinor's father died, they spent a lot of time together and are already in love by the time the main events of the novel (the Dashwood women moving to Barton) begin. Maybed we need a Hooked Up Before equivalent of [[Hooked Up Afterwards]]... {{worksubpagefooter}} ~~{{reflist}}~~ [[Category:Literature/Headscratchers]] __NOTOC__ ~~[[Category:Sense And Sensibility]]~~ ~~[[Category:Headscratchers]]~~