“I am not helpless.” Miss Bates is just blinking “ERROR, ERROR, ERROR” at this point, trying to make sense of what Frank is doing, and not having any success. Why is he taking her arm? Since it can’t be to escort her into supper, maybe he thinks she’s about to fall over?
Category: Miss Bates
I know Miss Bates is much more than a device, no matter how I sound when I get over-enthusiastic
Jane Austen uses one single picture in the ABC game to show us how carefully attuned Miss Bates is to her niece’s well-being and when the word “Dixon” lands like a slap on Jane’s heart and Miss Bates somehow feels it.
“Aye, very true, my dear,” cried the latter, though Jane had not spoken a word—“I was just going to say the same thing. It is time for us to be going indeed…”
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