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…”