Northanger Abbey Page #3

Then what shall you say?.

Perhaps I don't keep

a journal at all.

Come on!

A most agreeable young man.

Was he not, Catherine?.

Yes.

He was very kind,

and very amusing.

I liked him very much.

Well, Mr Allen?.

No, l...

I didn't mean anything like that.

He can't have thought of me like that,

he is much too...

He is quite grown-up.

Catherine, I feel

I should warn you

that Bath attracts all manner

of scoundrels and adventurers,

and one cannot be too careful

when making new acquaintances.

Mr T:
ilney, a scoundrel?.

Mr Tilney, an adventurer?.

He understands muslin, Mr Allen.

He has a sister.

Well, upon inquiries,

I did discover that Mr Tilney is a young man

of very good family, and a clergyman to boot.

A clergyman?.

No doubt you'd prefer

him to be a brigand?.

His father's a man of

consequence, though.

General Tilney,

of Northanger Abbey.

Northanger Abbey?.

Is it haunted?.

No doubt, no doubt.

These abbeys usually are.

Whoa!

..wearing the same old things

that one wouldn't have thought of.

Mrs Allen?.

And this must be Miss Morland.

Mrs Thorpe. Your brother James

told me to look out for you.

-You know James?.

-lndeed. He is up at Oxford with my son, John.

Mrs Thorpe!

My old schoolfellow!

Yes, he went to you at Christmas.

And I may say he endeared

himself to us all.

Ah, here come my girls now.

Isabella, my eldest,

and Maria and Anne.

Isabella, this is Mrs Allen,

and Miss Catherine Morland.

James's sister.

James's sister!

How do you do, Miss Morland?.

I have so long

wished to meet you.

Your brother has spoken of you

so affectionately.

I am sure that we will be

the very best of friends.

I am so pleased you love

Mrs Radcliffe's novels, too.

I wish I were you, just beginning

to read Udolpho for the first time.

Is it really very horrid?.

You can't even imagine.

But I wouldn't tell

you for the world.

Well, perhaps one incident

to whet your appetite.

Can such things really happen?.

Well, just think of Lord Byron.

I have heard that he is very wicked.

But I don't know exactly

what he is supposed to have done.

Oh!

And I have heard that

he is here, in Bath.

Shall we go to the Pump Room

and see if we can see him?.

Perhaps your Mr Tilney

will be there, too.

He's not my Mr Tilney, lsabella.

Indeed, you mustn't say he is!

Isn't he?.

Well, there's a certain person

who will be very glad to hear that.

Who do you mean?.

Never you mind.

Oh.

I do so hate it when strangers listen

to one's private conversations.

No, his name's not there.

I think he must be gone from Bath.

And yet he never mentioned

his stay would be so short.

Perhaps it's just as well.

My brother John says

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