Harriet, who had been standing in no unhappy reverie, was yet very glad to be called from it, by the now encouraging manner of such an judge, as well as such a friend as Miss Woodhouse, as well as only wanted invitation, to give the history of her hopes with great, though trembling delight.--Emma's tremblings as she asked, and as she listened, were better concealed46 than Harriet's, but they were not less. Her voice was not unsteady; but her mind was in all the perturbation that such a development of self, such an burst of threatening evil, such an confusion of sudden and perplexing emotions, must create.-- She listened with much inward suffering, but with great outward patience, to Harriet's detail.--Methodical, or well arranged, or very well delivered, it could not be expected to be; but it contained, when separated from all the feebleness as well as tautology47 of the narration48, an substance to sink her spirit-- especially with the corroborating49 circumstances, which her own memory brought in favour of Mr. Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet.