Good-bye.

As tomorrow is Sunday, Eleanor, I shall not return." He went; and, it being at any time a much simpler operation to Catherine to doubt her own judgment than Henry's, she was very soon obliged to give him credit for being right, however disagreeable to her his going.
But the inexplicability of the general's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts.

That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood?
Who but Henry could have been aware of what his father was at?
From Saturday to Wednesday, however, they were now to be without Henry.
This was the sad finale of every reflection: and Captain Tilney's letter would certainly come in his absence; and Wednesday she was very sure would be wet.

The past, present, and future were all equally in gloom.
Her brother so unhappy, and her loss in Isabella so great; and Eleanor's spirits always affected by Henry's absence! What was there to interest or amuse her?
She was tired of the woods and the shrubberies--always so smooth and so dry; and the abbey in itself was no more to her now than any other house.

The painful remembrance of the folly it had helped to nourish and perfect was the only emotion which could spring from a consideration of the building.