A Conversation Overheard, Charles Joshua Chaplin [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
A conversation is not overheard in this chapter. In fact, Kitty is listening and hoping to hear some conversation so that she knows she can enter the library safely. Hmmm. I wonder who is in Netherfield’s library. [Hint: If Lydia is there, that must mean that others in the Fitzwilliam family might also have arrived at Netherfield. ;)]
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Kitty had only taken two steps into Netherfield’s library before turning around and darting out of the room. She stood near the partially open door and listened for the sound of voices to indicate that entering might be safe. She placed her hands, which were cool, on her cheeks to keep them from growing too warm.
“What are you doing? Are you eavesdropping?” Lydia whispered as she came to stand next to Kitty.
“Yes,” Kitty replied.
“Have you heard anything of interest?” Lydia leaned toward the door to the library. Her brow furrowed. “I do not hear anything. Is there someone in there?”
Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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2 thoughts on “A Conversation Overheard (Charles Joshua Chaplin)”
Lovely picture. That scene with Lydia and Kitty… was hilarious. Here they are fully grown and yet, we have a glimpse at what they were like when they were children… listening at their elder sisters late-night tête-à-tête or perhaps their parents having an argument or discussion. That was cute.
Yes, it is most definitely a glimpse of when they were younger, and the way Lydia just takes charge after this portion of the scene is also a good glimpse of how their childhood must have been with Lydia confidently leading the way and Kitty following along. 🙂
Lovely picture. That scene with Lydia and Kitty… was hilarious. Here they are fully grown and yet, we have a glimpse at what they were like when they were children… listening at their elder sisters late-night tête-à-tête or perhaps their parents having an argument or discussion. That was cute.
Yes, it is most definitely a glimpse of when they were younger, and the way Lydia just takes charge after this portion of the scene is also a good glimpse of how their childhood must have been with Lydia confidently leading the way and Kitty following along. 🙂