"Caroline cannot have rejected him?
No, that is quite impossible.

My sister would surely not be such a practised coquette.

I must seek her and have the mystery solved.

Surely she will be sorry St.Eval leaves us so soon." Emmeline hastened first to Ellen, begging her to pack up the little packet for Mrs.Langford, for she knew such an opportunity would be as acceptable to her cousin as to herself; for Ellen never forgot the humble kindness and prompt attention she had received from the widow during her long and tedious illness; and by little offerings, and what the good woman still more valued, by a few kind and playful lines, which ever accompanied them, she endeavoured to prove her sense of Widow Langford's conduct.
In five minutes more Emmeline was in her sister's room.

Caroline was partly dressed as if for a morning drive, and her attendant leaving just as her sister entered.