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Crescendo by Sobriquett for The_Paradigm
Fandoms: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1995)
18 Jan 2026
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How did one speak to a husband? In much the same way as one spoke to any intimate, she supposed, at least at the start. Gentlemen could not be so very strange to speak to alone. She had never paid so much attention as Elinor to the cultivation of impeccable manners and the formulae of precisely what one must say in a situation. As such, freed from any restriction on that score and with no rubric to contain her, she said:
"May I call you Christopher, when we are alone?"
Marianne finds that her feelings are enough, if she trusts them, to guide her through the unknown and unknowable.