Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen chapter 28, narrated by Isaac BirchallSubscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D⁠https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join⁠Summary:Nothing happened over the course of the next few days. Willoughby neither came nor wrote. Lady Middleton has invited the girls to a dance, and though Marianne is deeply distracted she consents to go. When they arrive at the venue, they find the room crowded and hot. Lady Middleton sits at a card table, and the girls find some chairs by her. Elanor then spots Willoughby, talking with a woman, and he acknowledges her presence before going back to talk to the other younger woman. Elanor turns to her sister to see if she too has seen Willoughby. She has… Elanor tries to keep her sister composed, but cannot, and soon Marianne stands up, and Willoughby approaches them, addressing himself to Elanor. Elanor is distressed by his address and finds it confusing that he seems to not know about their being in town. Marianne is having none of it however and asks outright why he is ignoring her letters, and why he wont even shake her hand. He reaches out to her, but her touch seems to pain him, and after a moments pause, he recollects himself and says that he regrets that he missed them the previous Tuesday. Marianne questions him again, and he says that he received her letter, and then leaves the Miss Dashwoods alone to see his friend again. Marianne collapses into her chair, distraught. Elanor goes to Lady Middleton and informs her that Marianne is ill and says that they must go home. Lady Middleton is too polite to say no, and the carriage is soon called for, and they go home where Marianne runs up to her room and cries, while Elanor thinks over everything that has happened between her sister and Willoughby. SEO stuff I don't want to do. Jane Austin's timeless classic Sense and Sensibility follows the story of two girls, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, and their endeavors in love, marriage, and societal expectations. Love is not easy however, and Elinor finds her sense tested by her charming brother-in-law, while Marianne's sensibility brings her nothing but heartbreak.