Oh, I don’t think so. Hartfield is enough for me. Think how much you would have to scold me if I was mistress of two domains! EMMAWOODHOUSEINEMMA–PART4
She felt that, in quitting Donwell, he must be sacrificing a great deal of independence; that in living constantly with her father, and in no house of his own, there would be much, very much, to be borne with.
Though she would never have admitted it to anyone, Emma felt – just for one moment – a strange sensation that maybe, through her own endeavours, she was about to lose something that might never be recovered.