Northanger Abbey

and, with a rising colour, asked her if she would have the goodness to show him the way.

With a look of much respect, he immediately rose, and being introduced to her by her conscious daughter as "Mr. Henry Tilney," with the embarrassment of real sensibility began to apologize for his appearance there, acknowledging that after what had passed he had little right to expect a welcome at Fullerton, and stating his impatience to be assured of Miss Morland's having reached her home in safety, as the cause of his intrusion.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.